Follow the Threads

"Jimenez Underwood, who was born in Sacramento in 1949, has an intimate relationship with the border, having crossed it numerous times during her youth. Her father was born in Mexico, of Huichol ancestry, and was undocumented in the US. She remembers watching him weave in their garage, on a loom he had created with nails, as he avoided immigration agents. Jimenez Underwood made her first woven artwork while in her 20s... As the 11th of 12 children, Jimenez Underwood followed the harvest times of different crops with her family. Seeing the toll such labor took on her family gave her a sense of urgency to get out of the fields, so as a child she formed a 10-year plan - by the end of which she would get her high school diploma and leave the croplands so she could tell the story of the people who remained." - Maximilíano Durón