Untitled (so much darkness, so much brownness), 2016–18

Felipe Baeza
Mexico, b. 1987, active United States
Untitled (so much darkness, so much brownness), 2016–18
Ink, collage, and hand embroidery on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Barbara Karp Shuster
M.2019.38

Felipe Baeza’s experience as an undocumented queer immigrant has informed his practice. His work incorporates printmaking and collage; for Untitled (so much darkness, so much brownness), he embroidered an image of a Mexican family attempting to cross the United States border onto a salvaged map. Baeza then laid the paper face-down on the floor and layered “skins” of pigments, powder, and water on top of it. He completed this process around a dozen times for this work, emphasizing the labor and layers that lie beneath the surface of the image.