In this series I create geometric gestures in the landscape reminiscent of cave paintings to illustrate the complex relationship between language and abstraction blurring subjective interpretation and communal understanding. Caves and landscapes are uncivilized spaces free from cultural baggage, places that need no language, sites for the viewer to interpret freely, devoid of iconographic logic. The reflective safety tape that creates these shapes references my larger practice dealing with immigrant labor and construction work often performed by Latin American immigrants in the US. In English double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative, but in Spanish, they intensify the negation. Negative Concord conveys the struggle to meaningfully translate our human experience across languages and cultures. Now as part of the blockchain, these photographic NFTs become metaphors for this new, virtual landscape that is simultaneously being created, explored, and interpreted.
