Windward Review Volume 19 (2021): Empathy and Entropy

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“Interdisciplinary artist Leticia R. Bajuyo’s visual poetry uses player pianorolls. These pieces explore sensory expectations and organic meaning-makingcapacities. The materially tangible, spatially disorienting,poetic, and musical combine into a singular artform.”- Zoe Ramos, Sr. Ed.Windward Review: Vol. 1974
Leticia R. BajuyoLonging for BelongingGrowing up in a rural midwestern town on the border of Illinois and Kentucky,I began creating and tinkering long before describing these explorationsas art or a studio practice. After graduating from the University of Notre Damewith a BFA and from the University of Tennessee Knoxville with an MFA, in 2001,I became a tenure track professor at Hanover College in Indiana. The creativeproblem solving underway in the studio, in my home, and in the classroom wasand is foundational to my approach to my vocation.While I work with a variety of media and in sizes ranging from miniatureto architectural, Sculpture continues to be my interdisciplinary nexus for collectingstories about potential, perception, privilege, and pleasure. In my artwork,compassion and empathy fuel my studio production as I combine disparate objectsand remnants of past yearnings. The objects and stories are dusty trophiesfor a forgotten competition that find space in my studio where I reassesstheir current silence.As materials migrate from one role to another role in search of belonging,these objects are akin to characters who are in search of an author as I createaesthetic and harmonious visions where everything convincingly fits togetherin a unified whole; however, the ease and harmony of the surface contains andoccasionally reveals the reality of struggles, pressures, fears, and disappointmentwithin. My artworks are crafted to be desirable while being self-reflexively criticalat heart as I reflect on issues of identity and value that emphasize thin line betweendesire and discard.During the summer of 2021, I started a new body of work during aresidency at Fountainhead in Miami, Florida where the environment and communityfostered the first components of this growing series of raw and vulnerablevisual poems. These collages are made from player piano rolls, ink drawings, andbeeswax. While displayed in different manners, each visual poem explores thetension between art and craft, between desiring and discarding, and betweenlonging and belonging. Once, these player piano rolls were the desirable modefor sharing music and singing along with the melody. My visual poems addressthe misplaced desire for a sepia-toned yesterday with the impact of cultural capitaland assimilation that tries so hard to fit into today.These player piano roll visual poems build upon my use of another devicefor storing and sharing data – CD/DVDs. When I explore these conceptswith donated discs, the collection becomes a visually displaced consciousnessand collective memory that is woven into a fabric. By designing shiny tunnels andhorns with visible construction methods, my CD/DVD installations foster awarenessof the thin line between desire and discard. Although these discs and playerpiano rolls still hold coded information, their use as memory storage deviceshave waned; however, their potential to present value and to reflect on changecontinues.For more images of my work and information about upcomingexhibitions and public lectures, please visit www.leticiabajuyo.com.Thank you to everyone at Windward Review who continue to support, challenge,care, and hope! It has been an honor to be a part of this publication and I deeplyappreciate the empathy you extend to your communities as we strive throughthe entropy that can cover up and at times overwhelm truth. Thank you for includingme and my artwork.75Empathy / Entropy
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Empathy and EntropyManaging EditorD
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Your soft touch on my skinMy words
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FunctionalErica EngelWhen they cut
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