This series is created in collaboration with sociologist Jasmin Hristov and the FNLS (Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo). Read more about her work and our collaboration here.

YCIFKU is a monument to collective grief. Using archival images of disappeared and murdered Indigenous FNLS members, provided through my colleague Jasmin and  approved for use by the FNLS, I digitally warped their silent portraits into agonizing screams before translating them into painstaking hand-embroidery on ubiquitous Latin American plastic tarps. By weaving in discarded lottery tickets, candy wrappers, and other New York City street trash, the lost appear to rise from the capitalist waste of the Global North to scream directly at the viewer. The series is an intentional invocation of horror and shame, forcing audiences to finally confront their complicity in a brutalization the world has long ignored.

Your Capitalism Is Fucking Killing Us 1 (Gregorio de la Cruz de la Cruz tortured and murdered on July 23, 2023), embroidery thread, lottery tickets, various fabrics, buttons, metal loops, wire, sewing thread, acrylic paint, color pencil & markers, tear-away stabilizer on plastic tarp with additional grommets. 33 x 26 in., 2026.

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