Bound together by the humble safety pin, three tapestries feature American landscapes and a bird’s eye view along the U.S.-Mexico border. The earth-colored weaving on the bottom represents ancient pyramids...
Bound together by the humble safety pin, three tapestries feature American landscapes and a bird’s eye view along the U.S.-Mexico border. The earth-colored weaving on the bottom represents ancient pyramids and mountains, while the weaving on the top features the landscapes of today’s society. The artist describes it as having “a lot more lines, a lot more movement, so it’s like flying from the old to the new as you cross the border. It’s the same land, it’s just structured differently.” The stunning blue weaving in the middle features two eagles, a nod to the golden eagle of the Mexican flag and U.S. imagery of the bald eagle or is it a United Farm Workers eagle? Gliding above the border, they morph and hybridize.
"As fiber artists rooted in Mexican Indigenous/mestiza weaving practices and decolonizing struggles, I consider Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Georgina Santos to be part of this aesthetic tradition and political conversation, as they adapt ancestral forms and techniques to unravel the legacies of colonialism and neocolonialism in ways that are informed by Indigenous and feminist epistemologies." Cristina Serna, “Decolonizing Aesthetics”, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision, Duke University Press, 2022
