I find that I am always interested in places visually and I spend a lot of time walking or driving around to just look at wherever I live. I’ve been making work about places for a while and about 3 years ago I started to make composites. It is a way to create a place that highlights things I see and am interested in. If I am rearranging the world around me, I can put several specific elements together to say something or create a particular feeling. Visually hyperbole in a sense.
An indigenous woman with a sick child has been waiting more than a day for a ride to their community more than 50 kilometers away.
Pregnant women, mothers with their babies and their families live in the hospital courtyard for lack of space. They eat, sleep and wash their clothes there.
At the time of birth is common for adolescents to download the anguish withheld during pregnancy. The girl screams, and then asks me to help her out of there.
a woman with mental retardation have problems with her pregnancy. The absence of medical records and the impossibility of undergoing some force her to wait for hours for the doctors.
The mothers share bed with several children and their husbands while they recover in the hospital.
A 15 year old Indigenous girl is recovering from a blood transfusion; her husband of 16 has been next to her for more than a day, unable to stop pressuring the arm of his wife for fear of bleeding
The mothers are surrounded by various creatures, five children in this case. Discrimination and gender violence puts them in a place were they must procreate as much as possible.
Burials are conducted without the presence of family members. When a child dies, the hospital director is in charge of the religious ceremony, takes it as part of their daily work.
She crossed the Chaco Boreal on foot with her son, that morning the doctor is not there. In rural areas, salaries are paid to doctors who do not exist.
