Dinero Viejo de Familia
(2022)
Ashes series

Dinero Viejo de Familia holds inheritance without sentimentality. Layered paper intersects with burned fragments, leaving marks that operate as evidence rather than symbol. The surface carries heat, residue, and abrasion. Nothing is decorative. Everything has been altered by contact. The work feels physically tested, shaped through pressure and removal as much as accumulation.

Standing with the piece, the emotional register lands close to bone: old wealth, old rules, old vows. Burned sections read as memory scorched into structure. Intact areas feel like stories preserved whether or not they still fit. The tension between loss and continuity is not conceptual. It is visible. You can feel it in the paper.

Rather than asking what we inherit, the work asks what we are responsible for. What is worth carrying forward. What must be edited, dismantled, or released. Dinero Viejo de Familia holds that negotiation without resolution, insisting that lineage is not a fixed asset but a constant revision between history, selfhood, and choice.