Yanaguana Garden

Land, Origins, and People

Yanaguana is the Indigenous Payaya word for the San Antonio River area. The project takes its name from that word: tapestry banners hung in the trees of Yanaguana Garden, about land, its origins, and the people who inhabit and shape it.

The work is about belonging, displacement, and cultivation in the landscape — the histories the land carries.

• The Land of Spirit Waters banner series — moon panther, sun bird, and spirit figures
• Hung in the trees above the festival archway at Yanaguana Garden, San Antonio
• Selected for The Last Sky — Texas Biennial 2024 at Blaffer Art Museum
• Banners trail neon ribbons that move with the wind at night