APRIL BERMUDEZ
Our House
I’ve lived in 16 different places. I spent 40 yrs living in different parts of Los Angeles County. I live in Nevada now, but for how long? I have a feeling I’ll be moving again in a few years. Where to? I’m not sure.
That's why I made a house out of a somewhat temporary object. This way I can have a home that I can take with me wherever I go and if it were to happen to get destroyed, it wouldn’t matter because it was temporary in the first place. Till the permanence finds me, I’ll just continue being a transient in transit.
Our House
mixed media
4 1/2 in x 10 in x 2 in
For My Father
For My Father
mixed media
19 in x 14 in x 3 in
This was a labor of love. This piece was made as a tribute to my father. It is a Dia de los Muertos celebration inspired piece, an ofrenda. My father was a carpenter by trade and a catholic, which is why it resembles a church and why this piece is sided with wood. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean by my brother, my sister, and myself. It was nice to make something real to celebrate him. In the center, the last thing I made was the funeral wreath and I embroidered my fathers initials, JMB, on a ribbon scroll.