Lourdes Jiménez, MFA Graduating Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, April 10th to May 1st, 2015.
Our stories begin writing themselves from the very first moment we draw breath. Through choice and exposure we go through life adding chapter after chapter to these tales. My work revolves around the accumulation of these experiences and the narratives that such memories fabricate. These everyday alterations, natural exposures, and inevitable transformations are consequently converted and reflected in my work through found objects and hand built clay sculptures.
Brotes de Cuentos is the visual accumulation of my life experiences thus far. Its components are arranged in an abstracted map-like formation, cultivating from the origins of where my parents and ancestors came from in southwestern Mexico, expanding into the rich soils of Southern California, and continuing its growth across the country, blooming in the wake of my footsteps.
With the assistance of shadow boxes, colorful backgrounds, and enclosed vessels my work speaks of events and places that only exist at particular points in time. Through the use of ceramic wall sculptures, color, texture, pattern, and spatial organization, I lay out before you selected glimpses of my life. These moments will forever remain suspended, eternally simmering, in their unique localities.