Projects
Ongoing site-responsive projects — installation, projection, textile, and research — built with specific places, communities, and plants.
Emma S. Barrientos MACC
Architectural photography and film of the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin — the floating canopy, the lakeside site, and The Gateway, the entrance artwork, on camera.
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Afterworld
Afterworld is a site-responsive installation working across four named afterlife traditions — Mictlān, Obon, purgatory, and moksha — each presented in its own terms rather than as instances of a universal theme. Presa House Gallery, San Antonio (Yanaguana), 2023.
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Rhizomatic
Rhizomatic is a site-responsive textile installation built around the plants of each venue. Chicago Botanic Garden (2024); Austin Central Library (2025).
Node: Video Art Night
Node is an experimental platform for video art and projection — bringing screenings, installations, and open programs into unexpected spaces across Austin. Each iteration finds a new site and listens to it.
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Plant Story Cards
Plant Story Cards is an ongoing research project pairing Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian plant knowledge with community-collected stories — a digital archive of plant-people relationships in Austin.
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Yanaguana Garden
Tapestry banners named for the Payaya word for the San Antonio River area — land, its origins, and the people who shape it. Luminaria San Antonio; Texas Biennial 2024 at Blaffer Art Museum.
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Native Waters
A floating projection on Lady Bird Lake — monarchs and Indigenous motifs glowing over the water against the downtown Austin skyline.
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Interwoven throughout Eternity
Digital collage portraits, projections, fashion photography, and fabric prints exploring the interconnectedness of the human and non-human. Ivester Contemporary, Austin, 2021.
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Biochromatic
Photography, print, projection, and installation exploring uncommon arrangements of light at the edges of the visible spectrum. Luminaria San Antonio, 2016–2017.
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The Last Sky — Texas Biennial 2024
The Land of Spirit Waters banners at the eighth Texas Biennial, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston — selected through open call. September 2024 – March 2025.
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Siloed
Tapestries, prints, and neon light inside the decommissioned water towers of Tank Town, Lockhart — saturated color against rusted industrial interiors.
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Stay Wild
An ecological group exhibition curated by Essentials Creative for the 2024 Austin Studio Tour at Culture Complex / Big Medium — nine artists on the resilience of nature.
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Love Letter to Austin
A city-portrait film addressed to Austin itself — paired with a companion letter to San Antonio, where the collective's story began.
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