¡Otro sueño convertido en realidad! Happy to announce I am a 2021 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 among a very diverse group of artists. The project selected La Ciudad en las Nubes is about decolonizing narratives surrounding the discovery of Machu Picchu and it's part of a larger work in progress. I am very excited about this project. To view the list of winners visit: https://www.photolucida.org/critical-mass/top-50

Selected comments by Photolucida Critical Mass jurors:

“This is such a beautiful investigation of how imperialist/supremacist thinking rewrites histories, especially in the pages of publications that have established themselves as experts on cultures they've purposefully rendered invisible. Your collage choices, redactions and overlays of images are not only visually stunning, but deeply contextual and really force the viewer to engage in this revision of history in an accessible way. Excellent!”

“This is work that claps back at the white dominant narrative in surprising and appropriately critical ways. I love how the frame in "The Framing of Machu Picchu" is the precise yellow of the National Geographic brand. This kind of work holds America and its nationalistic take on its own history accountable in ways that are necessary and important. I look forward to seeing more of this work. Have you considered this as a book?”