BEATRIZ GUZMAN VELASQUEZ

hoy hay mas muertos que vivos [there are more dead than alive]

13320 Washington Ave, Hargill, TX 78549

8in x 10in

newspaper

$100, limited prints

Artist’s Note: Usually used to block the sun by my mother, newspapers on windows have functioned as barriers from the hazardous nature of the outside world. As I take shelter at home, I place newspaper word cutouts on windows to form a dialogue rather than to shut out outwardly. In the phrase “hoy hay mas muertos que vivos” [there are more dead than alive], I dialogue with my Mexican American border community to shed light on the experience of living with a daily death count.

ART-IN-PLACE is organized by CNL Productions and Terrain Exhibitions.