<div dir="ltr"><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">Hello Everyone!</span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">It's been wonderful to follow along and read everyone's posts. I'm interested in</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> how</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Feminist Data Visualization</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> can offer an opposing picture of the </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">official </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> story</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">or resist </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">what Catherine </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">D'Ignazio</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> calls </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">the "final representation</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, specifically, when it comes to women and minorit</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">y</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> bodies and narratives.</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> I'd like to share some of the work that I have been doing that attempts to provide alternate histories of Latin American women, the body and landscape. </span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">A little bit about my work:</span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">As a visual artist, my practice has focused on painting, drawing, and video. My most recent bodies of work are all encounters with themes and images originating in our hemisphere’s </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">narco</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">-‐trafficking milieu</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> and armed conflicts</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, with a particular emphasis on how gender and ecological concerns play out therein. These drawings and paintings mix materiality with content in pieces that consider how the Latin American body and the Latin American landscape remain inextricably linked, even as their surrounding media and political contexts are increasingly digitized and globalized. I’m drawn to these questions not just as a Colombian-‐American and a woman, but as a painter who believes painting, drawing and mark making continue to offer rich, materials-‐based avenues for understanding the world around us.</span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> I have several works that I'll share with you through my website (apologies, it is being rebuilt, so the presentation is a bit wonky) and through my Vimeo page. </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> The first piece </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">is titled T</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">he Female Report/ El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">. </span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> The Female Report/ El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> explores the role of Latin American women in history and the media. </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">In The Female Report/El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, a single channel video which addresses perceptions of Latin American women in news and ‘infotainment’ culture through a simulated newscast exploring feminism and popular notions of Latina womanhood. Modeled after popular, female-anchored Spanish-language television news programs on </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Telemundo</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> and Univision, El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> features a fictional newscaster, </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Silviana</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Godoy, “reporting” on the past and current status of women in Latin America. Godoy alternates between English and Spanish over the course of an extended, free-wheeling monologue, alighting on the accomplishments and downfalls of Latin American women. The Female Report/ El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> travels between English and Spanish and employs a tongue in cheek or comedic delivery that "reports" on the news or alternate history</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">. The reporter Silvia Godoy interprets her own </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">newscast</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> switching from English to Spanish in an act that </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Brasilian</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> writer Oswald De Andrade calls </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:italic;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Antropofagia</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">sh</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">e simulta</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">neously consum</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">es</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> or eat</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">s</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> her own words. </span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">The Female Report/</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">challenges</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> or relocates</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> the official </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">feminist history ( one that is usually centered on the history makers from Europe and the US) by offering the names of key women in Latin American revolutions, art, and literature.</span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">The Female Report/El </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><a class="" href="https://vimeo.com/41060029" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:inherit"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">https://vimeo.com/41060029</span></span></a><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">In <b>Physiognomy of Tropical Vegetation in South America: After Humboldt & Berg</b> immerses itself in a visual tradition at the root of many of these conversations: the maps, painted travelogues and scientific illustrations that were critical tools of colonialism, botany and pharmacology. This work is inspired by two 19th Century botanical explorers, Alexander Von Humboldt, who created a study of native birds, flowers and plants in the Americas, and Albert Berg, who painted the Magdalena River Valley in Colombia. My own investigations play off Humboldt and Berg’s rich legacy of botanical and geographical illustration, evoking both abstract and figurative painting as well as the current political and ecological state of the Magdalena River, site of an ongoing armed conflict between the Colombian government, Marxist guerrillas, right-‐wing paramilitaries and </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">narco</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">-‐traffickers. </span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">Physiognomy of Tropical Vegetation in South America: After Humboldt & Berg & Garden Heads</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" 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style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">View the original drawings by Alexander Von Humboldt & Albert Berg in the Illinois Digital Archive</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">- </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncbglib01/id/4235">http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncbglib01/id/4235</a></span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><br></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">My final work that I'll share with you is a video titled </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Mujeres</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Que </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Crean</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">/ Women Who Create</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent">which features displaced survivors of Colombia’s armed conflict</font><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> re-</font></span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">enacting poses and gestures found in historical artworks. Set against drawn tropical landscapes inspired by 18th-century botanical illustrations of the Magdalena river valley, the video explores the role of women as mothers, sisters, and children of the armed-‐ conflict, their human stories of loss and resilience underscored by the decline of the fragile ecologies surrounding the rural towns and villages they fled. </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">The work in the exhibition is the culmination of a project that began three years ago during a residency at Casa </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Tres</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Patios in Medellin, Colombia, where I led a series of workshops with women from the NGO </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Corporacion</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Por</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> La Vida, </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Mujeres</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Que </span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Crean</span></span><span class="" lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">.</span></span><span class="" style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"> </span></p></div><div class="" 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