Evening News: AYUDAME

I recently submitted this piece for a two-year traveling exhibit called "Flight of Ideas" in my local SAQA area (Rhode Island/Massachusetts).  Sorry this isn't a better photo!  I must have been rushing to get the piece packed and delivered on a deadline.  I'll take better photos when I visit one of the exhibition sites.

My statements with the piece:

Materials: Vintage and new fabric, including fabric from Thailand and Africa and prayer flag fabric.

“Artist’s Statement”

J. Carubia creates unique abstract, bold, conceptual forms by following threads of imagination combined with words, colors, patterns, textures, and shapes.  Juxtaposition of opposites is an inherent trait of her work.  Finished pieces take the form of fiber fables, longevity banners, memory banners, text-tiles, crops, and wearable arts.  “Evening News” (2019) employs vintage and new fabric from three continents deployed in complex forms to reveal gruesome bulletins of devastation alongside the heartbreaking ironies of a typical evening news broadcast. The word AYUDAME (Help Me!) screams through the piece, but does anyone understand or even notice?