<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Everyone, <br></div>In relation to the message by Carolyn Castaño, it raised many questions to me:<br></div>If we wish to oppose the official story and representation let's start by asking if there is such a thing as a Latin American women, given the fact that in Latin America there are all kinds of peoples, from Indigenous, to Africans, to North and South European, Arabic and Japanese emigrants. Do you think all these origins are not present and do not determine bodies? How do you understand a Latin American body emerging out of these origins that are not 'latina'? For me it is impossible to see Women in Latin America as Latin American Women understood as 'latina'. what do we mean by body and by 'landscape'; why do you connect body and landscape in the case of 'latin american women'. Is that only valid for Latin American Women (in the way you define), why not to relate body and landscape to other women in the world? Is this a valid approach? I consider that relating women's body and landscape is not a feminist approach. In fact the origin of 'landscape' is related to 'control' and domination of nature. So, from this approach inscribing the woman body in relation to the 'landscape' can be similar to relating it to a controlled and objectifie nature. <br>How can we relate body and landscape in a feminist way?<br></div>Thank you for raising these questions in my mind,<br></div>Best,<br></div>Cristina<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 July 2016 at 16:38, carolyn castano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolyncastano@gmail.com" target="_blank">carolyncastano@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">Hello Everyone!</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> how</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Feminist Data Visualization</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> can offer an opposing picture of the </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">official </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> story</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">or resist </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">what Catherine </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">D'Ignazio</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> calls </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">the "final representation</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">"</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, specifically, when it comes to women and minorit</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">y</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> bodies and narratives.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">A little bit about my work:</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">narco</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">-‐trafficking milieu</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> and armed conflicts</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> The first piece </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">is titled T</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">he Female Report/ El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">. </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> The Female Report/ El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> explores the role of Latin American women in history and the media. </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">In The Female Report/El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Telemundo</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> and Univision, El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> features a fictional newscaster, </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Silviana</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">. The reporter Silvia Godoy interprets her own </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">newscast</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> switching from English to Spanish in an act that </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Brasilian</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> writer Oswald De Andrade calls </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:italic;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Antropofagia</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">, </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">sh</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">e simulta</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">neously consum</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">es</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> or eat</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">s</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> her own words. </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">The Female Report/</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">challenges</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> or relocates</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> the official </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">The Female Report/El </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Reporte</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Femenil</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><a href="https://vimeo.com/41060029" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:inherit" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">https://vimeo.com/41060029</span></span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">narco</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">-‐traffickers. </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">Physiognomy of Tropical Vegetation in South America: After Humboldt & Berg & Garden Heads</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">- </span></span><a href="http://carolyncastano.com/content/professional-work-0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none;color:inherit" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,255);text-decoration:underline;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">http://carolyncastano.com/content/professional-work-0</span></span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">- </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><a href="http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncbglib01/id/4235" target="_blank">http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncbglib01/id/4235</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">My final work that I'll share with you is a video titled </span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Mujeres</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Que </span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Crean</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">/ Women Who Create</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><font style="color:windowtext;background-color:transparent" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">which features displaced survivors of Colombia’s armed conflict</font><span style="color:windowtext;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> re-</font></span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Tres</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span 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 style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Corporacion</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> </span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Por</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> La Vida, </span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Mujeres</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"> Que </span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Crean</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">.</span></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px;background-color:transparent"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p 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lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:transparent">Crean</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit">/Women Who Create-</span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px" lang="EN-US"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:inherit"><a href="https://vimeo.com/131447856" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/131447856</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:19px"> </span></font></p></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;vertical-align:baseline;color:windowtext;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:20px" lang="EN-US"><span 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