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ABOUT THE WORK

The works of Marina Cruz have a distinctly nostalgic quality to their overall treatment, mimicking the look and feel of old yet memorable tokens and trinkets one would understandably have stowed away in some attic or box, only to be met with a sense of longing when briefly unearthed. It is through this effect that Cruz begins her exploration into memory and the material substances that inherently affect its mood and composition. Cruz’s works begs the question on whether or not memory is the domain of the mind alone, or is it instead partly swayed by the shifting characteristics of our physical world. In this 2007 acrylic on canvas piece titled Table Setting, Cruz presents us with a familiar visual space—a silhouette of a woman seated behind a round table garbed in a simple white tablecloth. By presenting us with a visually frank and commonplace scene, Cruz is able to draw from the viewer a distinctly personal experience that effectively engages them in the process of remembering and memory-making. These experiences have become metaphors—both stored and retrieved, hidden and then found— in a dazzling yet nostalgic dance whose only audience is Minerva’s owl spreading its wings in anticipation of the inevitable coming of dusk.