"Grain of the Earth"
The exhibition And the Desert was Red and Red the Dust was Raised on view Dec. 2024-Feb. 2025 at the Carillon Gallery on the TCC Campus in Fort Worth, TX. This is the second iteration of the group exhibition curated by Leslie Moody-Castro, featuring works by Sharbani Das Gupta, Isadora Jackson, Zoe Spiliotis, Laura Turon, and Amy Vensel.
And the Desert was Red and Red the Dust was Raised explores the tension between structure and rebellion, containment and boundlessness. The exhibition considers the physical and conceptual limits of space—walls that define, collapse, and expand, and landscapes that exist beyond imposed boundaries. Works within the show challenge verticals and horizontals, echoing the restless movement of desert dust that resists attachment, finding form only in motion.
My contribution to the exhibition reflects these themes through three artworks of dyed, sewn, layered silkscreen, suspended within the space. This work explores the negotiation between fragility and endurance, mirroring the way the borderland landscapes shift and reshape over time, resisting permanence while embodying dualities.