In Navigational Points, I map ancestral migratory routes alongside speculative futures, questioning the dominant narratives of movement as crisis. Instead, I treat migration as a generative act of design, inheritance, and survival.

The artworks also reflect on experiences of navigation and travel, and of making home while on the move, as well as on metaphorical travel, lines, borders, paths and passages, and thresholds.

These collected stories of migration and migrant farming trace the journey my maternal grandparents took as they moved from Mexico to Houston, Texas. Like many immigrants, they found their path shaped by the land and labor that carried them through the uncertainty of the migration experience, leaving behind memories that continue to guide and ground us.

Mapping Borders—Cameron County, 2018
Burlap, polypropylene mesh,  printed twist ties