Casa de Mujeres

In Casa de Mujeres, my mother plays the role of three women in a home in Panama that mirrors my family history. These photographs are formed around the oral stories told to me by my mother, family photographs, and the impact of colonization. These images can be read as portraits of my mother as her various selves as well as the selves of our ancestors– like a nested doll. The pictures reveal the conflict that the history of colonialism plants in us, and grows through the generations, formed on colorism and hierarchy. In these photographs the three women, twin sisters, and a domestic worker symbolically represent the women of my family within the Caribbean, marked by a history of the silver and transatlantic slave trade, European colonization and migration.