This is a slightly different view of the preceding image of Nishtdugadacht.

Contra el mal de ojo was made for an exhibition I had in Havana. The title means “against the evil eye.” The text page of the book contains a series of warnings from my grandmother not to tempt the evil eye.

Contra el mal de ojo was made for an exhibition I had in Havana. The title means “against the evil eye.” The text page of the book contains a series of warnings from my grandmother not to tempt the evil eye.

Don’t Lose Heart contains a play on expressions we use with the word "heart". Below is the text that appears at the end of the book:

You can have a change of heart, a heart of gold, a heavy heart, a heart to heart.

You can eat one’s heart out, lose heart, have a heart, take heart.

In my heart of hearts, with a heavy heart, cross my heart, from the bottom of my heart, Don’t lose heart.

This is a partially open view of Don't Lose Heart

Bordes deshilachadas is a bilingual version of my one-of-a-kind artist book, Frayed Edges. It was published by Ediciones Vigía in Matanzas, Cuba in 2001 and contains original text based on the ending of a 20-year marriage and art in collaboration with Ediciones Vigía, translated by David Unger.