“Los Fragmentos Que He Cosido” (2018)
(The fragments I have sown)

Digital collage of scanned 35mm film and phone pictures

Los Fragmentos Que He Cosido (The fragments I have sowed) is a series of combined 35mm negatives scanned at a high resolution and digital images. Like most rolls of film, most compositions often cannot strong to stand alone as an image. I focused on why took the photos in the first place, why preserved them on a tangible archive, separating the value of what this image may offer to others and focused on what these fragmented “scraps” meant to be by its content, object value, or composition.

Each negative is layered and can be considered quilted together as fragments of my memory and my sentiments towards the archive that exists in greater significance than a forgotten frame on a negative or phone picture that gets lost once there is no longer any cloud storage.

I recall my matriarchs in my Colombian background; also similar to most Hispanic families (and ethnic minority families) that sow and weave clothes for their families. Insignificant scraps or layers of fabric that mean so much sentimentally to the person making them and the person wearing them.