oJo
2025
Steel, Caning, Beads, Rope, Wire, Light, Radio Static
Yale School of Art, May 2025
The name oJo comes from how this pattern of cane weaving is referred to in Nicaragua, ‘ojo de pollo.’ In naming each octagonal form as an individual eye I sought to place the weave in a conceptual space that would highlight how the divine exists in the everyday. Liberation Theology teaches that God lives in the places society over looks and turns away from, which remains true in the religiosity of the Nicaraguan pueblo. This sculpture captures the divine flame that does not die within the people, and through light and air creates a religious space of community and transcendence. A radio places static to embody the idea that even if a voice is cut off, their interior still reverberates with the world.