About:
Dominique Flores is a Latinx artist of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage residing in McAllen, Texas. Their current focus of their work explores the obscurity of location and disconnection of physical home life through the fixation of materiality. The use of ceramics as the focused medium helps to explore the fixation of creating identifiable novelties and distort them through the use of different glaze surfaces. Recent experimentation has allowed them to explore other kinds of medium like film and different printmaking methods to captures these ideas. They have received their B.F.A in Studio Art from University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley with an emphasis in Ceramics.
Statement:
My work explores the connectivity of miscellaneous objects and how they reflect on human existence, lost memories, and cultural identities. My interest in these subjects appeared as I became more nostalgic of my past and curious of the whereabouts of toys and novelties I once had.
My goal in this body of work is to create my own puzzle map of curated historical artifacts of the mundane life here on earth. I continue to document my research by familiarizing myself with my surroundings. I take quick pictures of discarded personal items. Items varied from clothes, furniture, many toys, and childhood memorabilia lost in the trash, in the middle of the road, and even just by a neighbor's lawn. I reflect on how long it will take for these lost items to be picked up or be gone forever. If they are picked, where will they go? How long will it take to break down into nothingness, or will it stay as is and continue to tarnish and sun bleach ‘til there’s not a hint of its original color is there.