tinaja
✸ The nestmaker /
The home-wrecker
✸ An imaginary of displacement
✸ You and me through the broken wristwatch 1
✸ You and me through the broken wristwatch 2
✸ Clop sur clop
✸ My own private México
✸ Color zine
About
About
It’s a place to explore the narrative, material, and sculptural nature of ‘books’.
tinaja in Spanish refers to clay jars made for keeping water, oils, or other liquids. The term can also refer to the unit of its contents. Their content is often thought to be sacred and used in offerings.
In English, the term is used for natural made surface pockets formed in bedrock due to water flows that end up carving the rock.
Both human-made and nature-made tinajas are sculptural vessels that tell stories and carry meaning.
As a migrant for most of her life, Virginia is interested in exploring concepts like home, space, memory, nostalgia, and how distance creates voids for new stories to be told. The state of displacement becomes a living and complex space to navigate.