Diana Guerrero-Maciá
Region: Midwest
Craft is a form of conscientiousness. For me, the verbing of craft
has always been a way to refute the either/or binaries that have
circulated in culture. Using collage as a system to put together
crafted material forms bearing an array of cultural references,
I acknowledge that my work questions its own mythology and
history. I reference the sampling of the database, the structural
forms of modernism, grand narratives of romanticism, and the
pictorial space of medieval works. I accept and take pleasure in
the overlapping histories of textiles, design, and painting without
prioritizing one over another, allowing for a contemporary selfleveling
of these histories. I am interested in how craft blurs the
edges of these worlds of art that I occupy and allows the specific
languages of each to act as an element in the dialects of a shared
visual language.