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In Torres Mata’s current work, spices, fibers, and wood are shaped, transformed, and delicately worked together to create stories rooted in family, memory, and his Mexican heritage. Using printmaking, papermaking, and woodworking in layered forms, ROOTED invites you to engage with your senses to encounter tactile materials. These handmade objects reflect Torres Mata’s past, upbringing, maturity, and growth through life across different chapters.
Influenced by culinary tradition and craft in both Mexico and the United States, this body of work explores the internal structure of family as a conceptual framework, infused with his understanding of labor, fragility, and strength. ROOTED is grounded in experimentation with materials from nature, using mixed media to convey feelings of loss and memory and the possibility for something new to transpire. The new techniques developed through this process have directed him to push beyond traditional practices and open alternative directions that inform and expand his artistic practice.
