Pondering on Home from Afar

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pondering on Home from Afar, 1997

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pondering on Home from Afar, 1997

Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Pondering on Home from Afar, 1997

I engage on a series of personal exercises focused on memories from home, that is, the Island of Hispaniola. This group of small works, no larger than 9” x 12, is generated at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, while studying with Constance Pierce. I am a brightly-colored ghost, who moves through a new realm accompanied by the saints, energies, stories and relatives who have traveled with me to the US within my body. I unpack, dust and honor them.

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