Trying to Keep It Together

This piece is a meditation on fragility, resilience, and transformation. By reconstructing a grocery cart out of clay and binding its broken elements with fabric, the work mirrors the emotional weight we carry and the process of healing through repair. The red fabric—my abuelito’s old t-shirt, weaves together memory and vulnerability, evoking the cyclical nature of pain and recovery. The cart, though fractured, stands as a testament to endurance—its scars becoming markers of survival. This piece is both an investigation of material and an intimate reflection on the human condition, where every break, mend, and reconstruction embodies the tension between loss and resilience.