Carlos Rosales-Silva American, b. 1982

"I made Peep Hole which was really untethered to any sort of reference. I went to the Whitney and saw this really gorgeous quilt in their craft show that had almost the exact same colors as the painting I had just made. It was such a beautiful quilt and was basically a grid of patch works. The edge of it was purple and the squares on the grid were orange and yellow and interspersed with purple, which was really disorienting and scratched a certain itch I have about confusing background and foreground in a flat space. So I decided to try and make a bigger version of Peep Hole, inspired by this quilt. When it was all said and done I had this reference from the quilt but completely changed the shape of it. Instead of being one big quilt shape, it looked like a blanket that you would see growing up in Texas or on the border, those big heavy fleece blankets. They always have some wild design on them, so that's what I thought of." - Carlos Rosales-Silva

"For many Mexicans and Mexican Americans, blankets such as the San Marcos cobija with designs ranging from tigers to Aztec warriors have become highly prized items after their production ceased in 2004. The Los Angeles Times once referred to the blankets as 'an object of affection among Latinos.'" - Marco Aquino, San Antonio Current