Somos los colores de la tierra / Includes details of the work
Pulp painting and silkscreen monotypes on pigmented linen, cotton and abaca fibers. 13.5 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Somos los colores de la tierra (mi cuerpo, espíritu, luz, agua y materia) / front and back of artwork
Over-beaten cotton, linen and abaca fibers with pigments. 17 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Blooming flowers outside the Women’s Studio Workshop, April 25th, 2025 Painting with pigmented fibers Detail, dry artwork Trees blooming, Springtown Road in New Paltz, April 25th, 2025
Somos los colores de la tierra (mi cuerpo, espíritu, luz, agua y materia)
Over-beaten cotton, linen and abaca fibers with pigments. 17 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Blooming trees outside on Canaan Road in New Paltz, April 24th, 2025 Painting with pigmented fibers Detail, dry artwork
Somos los colores de la tierra (yo la miro y ella mi mira de vuelta) / front and back of artwork
Abaca fibers, re-purposed painted hand-cut papers embedded onto wet sheets of hand-made paper, with pulp painting. 17 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Abaca paper with pulp painting and painted pieces of hand-cut papers Two details of dry artwork, back and front Embedded collage pieces and pulp painting on wet hand-made paper
Somos los colores de la tierra (vibraciones)
Cotton and Abaca fibers, re-purposed painted hand-cut papers embedded onto wet sheets of hand-made paper, with pulp painting. 17 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Pigmented over-beaten cotton and abaca fibers for pulp painting Material research, cotton sheet of paper with collaged inclusions and pulp painting Detail, dry artwork
Somos los colores de la tierra (wet lichens on trees)
Hand-made paper sheet with onion peels from my mother’s food preparation, over-beaten Abaca fibers, hand-dyed and hand-cut papers embedded onto the wet sheet. Hand-made egg shell pigments for surface painting from my food preparation. 17 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Material research, Art Farm Papers Archive, study of different fibers, Women’s Studio Workshop Onion peels and abaca paper, hand-made paper Hand-dyed and cut collaged pieces with onion and abaca paper Detail, dry artwork Work in progress, with collage inclusions and pulp painting
Somos los colores de la tierra
Pigmented yellow cotton paper, with pulp painting and blown-out drawings 13.5 inches diameter, Rosendale, NY, 2025
Process / Left to Right Blooms outside the WSW, April 22nd, 2025 Pulp-painting on hand-made yellow pigmented paper and drawing sketches (details 2, 3 & 4) Blown-out drawings with pigmented cotton Detail, dry artwork
Credits
Photography documentation by Seth Britton
Process documentation by the artist, Rosendale & New Paltz, NY, 2025
I’m deeply grateful to the Women’s Studio Workshop for facilitating their Papermaking Studio to do this work. Thank you Chris Petrone for sharing your Papermaking expertise during this project.
This creative work was supported by the Spring 2025 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program at SUNY NP. I’m grateful for the support of Department of Art Chair Lynn Batchelder and art colleagues, Beth Mugler Vargas, Executive Director SUNY NP Center for International Programs and the Office of the Dean and Provost at SUNY NP.
