Sandra Mayo
What Goes Around Comes Around
Monoprint with embroidery
7.5 x 11 in
ARTIST STATEMENT
This piece invites us to take a closer look at forced migration currents. They are not isolated events but rather a consequence of historical and political circumstances. Here, I use the symbols of the Genograms as a pictorial language. Genograms depict family emotional connections across generations. The continents are like families, symbolizing that we are all part of the human family. And yet, forced migration patterns resulted from colonization and/or political and economic exploitation, represented here by the Genogram symbol of abuse. This small map also invites us to take a closer look at ourselves while prompting us, perhaps, to think about how we look at "The Other." The other might be the migrant, the refugee, or anyone who is different from us.
BIO
Sandra Mayo is an Argentinean artist and educator (Ed.M.) She specializes in printmaking and mixed media. Her work was shown at the Argentinean Consulate in NYC, the Massachusetts State House, Boston Public Library, Monserrat School of Art, Brandeis University, Brown University, The VET'S Gallery, Chandler Gallery, Gallery 1581 and Attleboro Arts Museum among many others. Enabled by her background as educator and utilizing printmaking as her main tool, Sandra has developed a unique visual language using genograms to follow and probe the emotional history of families, including trauma and human rights abuses. Her art aims to provoke profound emotional and intellectual bonds with the viewer’s mind connecting them with current sociopolitical events. In 2022 her interactive exhibition Beyond Trauma; Roots and Routes was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Festival for the Creative Arts award at Brandeis University. In 2023 Sandra was the recipient of two Mass Cultural Council grants.
Artist Sandra Mayo
This piece invites us to take a closer look at forced migration currents. They are not isolated events but rather a consequence of historical and political circumstances. Here, I use the symbols of the Genograms as a pictorial language. Genograms depict family emotional connections across generations. The continents are like families, symbolizing that we are all part of the human family. And yet, forced migration patterns resulted from colonization and/or political and economic exploitation, represented here by the Genogram symbol of abuse. This small map also invites us to take a closer look at ourselves while prompting us, perhaps, to think about how we look at "The Other." The other might be the migrant, the refugee, or anyone who is different from us.
BIO
Sandra Mayo is an Argentinean artist and educator (Ed.M.) She specializes in printmaking and mixed media. Her work was shown at the Argentinean Consulate in NYC, the Massachusetts State House, Boston Public Library, Monserrat School of Art, Brandeis University, Brown University, The VET'S Gallery, Chandler Gallery, Gallery 1581 and Attleboro Arts Museum among many others. Enabled by her background as educator and utilizing printmaking as her main tool, Sandra has developed a unique visual language using genograms to follow and probe the emotional history of families, including trauma and human rights abuses. Her art aims to provoke profound emotional and intellectual bonds with the viewer’s mind connecting them with current sociopolitical events. In 2022 her interactive exhibition Beyond Trauma; Roots and Routes was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Festival for the Creative Arts award at Brandeis University. In 2023 Sandra was the recipient of two Mass Cultural Council grants.
Artist Sandra Mayo
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