How to Grow una Flor en el Desierto
Alina Fresquez Patrick
February 25, 2024 — March 23, 2024
Bodies and geographies melt together - exploring how memories of people seep across new places and generations. Featuring photo collages interwoven with original poetry, How to Grow una Flor en el Desierto explores how intergenerational trauma and familial memories seep across new places and generations.
How to grow una Flor en el Desierto is a limited edition book produced through the Penumbra Foundation’s Risograph Print & Publication Residency. The release of this book at Westlab + Gallery is accompanied by a print exhibition featuring photos and collages from the book as well as a public reading of its excerpts.
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Alina Fresquez Patrick is a photographer, writer, and multidisciplinary artist based out of Brooklyn with family roots in New Mexico. Utilizing analog techniques, Alina is dedicated to slowing down the process of lens-based art to offer collaborative image-making and resist the extractive history of photography.
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Copies of How to Grow una Flor en el Desierto available in store.
Specs:
88 Pages
9" × 12"
Edition of 96
Printing: Risograph (Black, Red, Yellow, Purple, Gold), Foil Stamp (cover)
Cover illustration by Abelardo S. Garcia
Book Documentation by Kevin Kunstadt.
