Sandy RodriguezBook 13

Sandy Rodriguez’s largest installation yet: a 20-foot map of the United States, plant portraits, a book and a landscape, all on handmade amate paper.

The Los Angeles Chicana artist and researcher made every piece on hand-processed amate-fiber paper, setting colonial Mexican sources against nineteenth-century maps and boundary surveys from the Huntington’s collections. The work looks at how borders and histories in the region are drawn, erased and redrawn, and at the communities official accounts leave out.

Full details at huntington.org