“This work began with scanning immigration documents I have accumulated since first applying for DACA in 2012—timestamps of my existence and movement as an immigrant in the U.S. Alongside these, I incorporate ID cards, passport photos, childhood portraits from Ecuador, family albums, petitions, and government correspondence. Through digital collage, I redact sensitive information, create patterns from repeated text, layer maps of Ecuador, and integrate imagery of water. This iterative process allows me to reclaim agency over these documents, shifting them from bureaucratic evidence to personal narrative.

Repetition and layering fracture and reconfigure these images, mirroring the ways memory, identity, and place remain in flux. Fragmented imagery and text create a dialogue between past and present, personal and political, evoking a sense of both impermanence and endurance. The shifting materiality of these works—printed surfaces, translucent layers, the painted chain-link fence—embodies the instability of borders and the structures that seek to contain us. These amalgamations of textures and forms resist fixed narratives, instead offering space for fluidity, re-imagination, and speculative futures.” — artist Francisco Donoso

Study for Survival No. 1 features laserjet, inkjet, screenprint, and cyanotype prints on heavy-weight paper, stitched mylar, and ink. The paper comes from former paintings that were cut down to sheet size, and were layered with media such as acrylic, ink, and spray paint.