La Bandera de mi...
Hand textile and embroidery work
(made in 2024, first publicly shown in 2025)
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A black-and-white American flag, its colors drained into mourning, becomes the ground for a hand-embroidered Mexican eagle. Made after Juanita’s deportation from the United States in 2024, the work reflects the contradictions of a country built on Mexican labor yet quick to reject Mexican bodies. With most of her family living in the U.S., the flag becomes a personal and political symbol: no matter where she is raised, she is seen as Mexican first. A symbol that once represented rejection now holds that tension, grief, pride, and the refusal to disappear: a reminder that home is not granted by a nation, but carried in the body, in memory, and in the stories we choose to embroider back into ourselves.
