HM&C Artist Juan Sánchez's work Poema Para Mami: Missing You graces the cover of Christopher D. Tirres's recently published book Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas: an in-depth exploration of spirituality as a catalyst for social transformation, showcasing the profound insights of six distinguished twentieth-century liberation thinkers from across the Américas.
From the edition notice: "Front cover image courtesy of Juan Sánchez, Guariken Arts, Inc. This mixed-media collage, entitled 'Poema Para Mami: Missing You,' pays tribute to Sánchez's mother and is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The upper half of the artwork features a photo of his mother's worn feet on cracked pavement, as well as a testimony—which mixes past and present tense—that Sánchez wrote in her honor. The bottom half of the collage calls attention to his mother's prayer card to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which she kept by her bed. Directly underneath, a row of five cowrie shells invoke Afro-Caribbean spirituality. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to working-class parents who migrated from Puerto Rico, Sánchez is one of the most important Nuyorican Latinx visual artists working today."
From the edition notice: "Front cover image courtesy of Juan Sánchez, Guariken Arts, Inc. This mixed-media collage, entitled 'Poema Para Mami: Missing You,' pays tribute to Sánchez's mother and is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. The upper half of the artwork features a photo of his mother's worn feet on cracked pavement, as well as a testimony—which mixes past and present tense—that Sánchez wrote in her honor. The bottom half of the collage calls attention to his mother's prayer card to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which she kept by her bed. Directly underneath, a row of five cowrie shells invoke Afro-Caribbean spirituality. Born in Brooklyn, NY, to working-class parents who migrated from Puerto Rico, Sánchez is one of the most important Nuyorican Latinx visual artists working today."
February 18, 2025
