Sarai Bustos

In my large-scale oil paintings, I use abstract map-making as a guide to create imaginary places and decipher through unknown spaces that explore my family, identity, and spirituality as a first-generation Chicana. By working on large canvases and through my bodily relationship to scale, drawing, and movement, I discover unlocatable land-forms through an improvisational process of mapping internal boundaries. My forms and crosshatched lines reflect the feelings of my individual-specific longing to locate myself as a whole through external routes, leaving and entering boundaryless forms.