The artist that I was most struck by in this weeks presentations was no doubt Margarita Cabreara. Our classmate Kaelyn Rodriguez, did an amazing job curating the artist work, specifically with the use of vinyl as a means of subverting meaning and material. The piece I admired the most was that of the cactus plant in her "Desert Plants" series. Her appropriation of border patrol uniforms to create the plants in question is absolutely mind-blowing. The border patrol agents themselves serve to "protect" the vast majority of deserts where such mentioned plants blossom. In many ways piece is a critique about the arbitrary nature of nationalism and how we as humans wear specific clothing to separate ourselves from other humans and human (and plant) nature itself.
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