My brown body has been colonized.
Colonized by my own white family.
A mixed-media book of etchings and paper cut-outs.
I made this photo etching book to map out the yearly trip to see my birth family that I used to take with my twin sister and my adoptive parents, from ages 8 to 18. This book not only physically maps out this annual journey but also the recurring thoughts I had along the way. The thoughts that were often confusing and frightening that through this project I am now allowing myself to feel. This was an incredibly personal and healing project that I hope to continue.
Presented as a portfolio folder, a collection of photo-etchings made from documents and photographs from my adoption in 1994 and 1995.
Included are the photo of my parents and the letter that my mother wrote to prospective birth-mothers choosing who to place their child with; photographs from the neo-natal intensive care unit with my parents, my birth mother and her twin sister; photographs from the court room where the judge finalized my adoption and that of my twin sister; and finally, a letter from my parents lawyer and adoption agency.
I have two families.
My birth family and my adoptive family.
My white family and my brown family.
My British family and my Mexican family.
The Broadways and the Garcias.
A mixed-media book of photo-etchings and paper cut-outs.
About two cultures
Tea and Horchata
Porcelain and red stone clay, fired at cone 6
White stone clay fired at cone 6
Erased Aztec and Myan ceramics that have been replaced by British pottery that belong to the Broadway family. This piece illustrated the erasure of Katherine's cultural identity in their childhood home.
Pencil drawing on plywood silhouette
