Hecho a mano

Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-12)My Mexican heritage and family traditions inform my work through narratives about the distance between today???s Mexican societies and their cultural history. Using traditional tools and processes can be labor intensive, and many people prefer the convenience of purchasing tortillas at the grocery store rather than performing the labor required to make each tortilla by hand. Traditions are lost as a result of this convenience, and American culture becomes homogenized. I create clay-based objects to celebrate these customs in an effort to prevent the collective forgetting and loss of history. My work attempts to embrace, preserve, and honor these traditions