Meadow is a sculptural fragment of a larger story that weaves time, memory, and place together. The work is a large rectangular structure composed of green plastic produce bins, intricately gathered to soften their industrial presence. It recontextualizes industrial produce bins as furrowed landforms, activating their symbolic weight as both containers and absences. These materials carry the residue of labor and offer a counterpoint to institutional monumentality. For instance, Meadow recalls the geometry of national memorials but shifts attention toward the ecological and the everyday. It echoes the formal language of American memorial pools, such as the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It honors the hands, histories, and ecosystems that have long gone unrecognized, like the migrant journeys of many, including my grandparents, who migrated from Mexico to the United States and were shaped by a relationship to land defined by agricultural work and physical labor.

At the same time, Meadow evokes the quiet expanse of grassy fields. Paired with native plants and pollinators, the piece creates a living landscape that bridges histories of labor, land, and remembrance. By placing ecological symbols, agricultural materials, and ancestral narratives in the same sculptural field, the work suggests that human and ecological migrations are inseparable, each shaped by delicate networks of adaptation and persistence. It invites viewers to consider how everyday forms carry cultural memory, how labor imprints itself on land, and how migration, both human and ecological, runs in parallel—embodying movement driven by necessity, sustenance grounded in the earth, and survival dependent on community.