Baroque Elucidation is an art project that aims to understand the physical intertwined and vertical structure, and the activity of oppression inherent in the baroque as exemplified in the façades, atriums and interior designs of cathedrals and churches during the colonial Mexico mostly. Using wood waste found it in wood shops, ateliers, or the streets and put it together, Baroque Elucidation is a site-specific / ongoing meta-baroque construction to position the pristine baroque design developed during the Mexican colony, in juxtaposition with the rough edges of wood waste in the site-specific installation. The goal is to unravel and identify the ideology behind baroque from its twisted imagery, and unfolding while critically looking at Latin American history and culture and its impact on contemporary societies and diaspora. The sculpture represent an allegory of wasted wood in reference to the remains of Hernán Cortés’ sunken ships on the Mexican coast, and used to fabricate brigantines to invade Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
