Artist Georgina Treviño takes us behind the making of our October issue flag

This emblem is simply a continuation of the sculptures I started doing utilizing jewelry itself arsenic a medium. I’ve been collecting jewelry that radical person donated to me. I bash an unfastened telephone wherever radical tin nonstop maine bags of jewelry, discarded jewelry, jewelry that doesn’t enactment for them anymore, oregon it’s breached oregon they hatred it due to the fact that it’s vintage. Not lone person I been collecting from people, but besides perpetually connected my travels. I ever look for jewelry that I could repurpose from flea markets, from the swap meets. The meaning down it is truly beautiful. I deliberation astir who owned this jewelry, the stories that travel with the jewelry — your grandma’s earring could beryllium there. I deliberation the stories that each portion carries, and besides the vigor that mightiness carry, is truthful cool. It’s not conscionable putting a clump of jewelry successful a piece, but it’s being conscious and besides curating what benignant of jewelry is going to spell successful each piece. It becomes similar a coating oregon a drawing.

This caller assemblage of enactment screams “abundance.” I opened my 2nd organization show, “Greetings From Tijuana” astatine the New Mexico State University’s University Art Museum [open done March 16], and a batch of these pieces are from there. They’re each portion of this bid called “Los Mexican Curios” that are sculptures utilizing already-made objects that are sold astatine the border, which are precise tacky and kitsch objects — chiefly piggy banks, fake luxury goods, a Tweety oregon Hello Kitty figurine. I’m repurposing them and giving them a caller life, and besides covering the imperfections successful the ceramics with jewelry to elevate the works.

Georgina Treviño is simply a Tijuana-born and San Diego-based artist, jeweler and educator who creates boundary-pushing works exhibited internationally. Featured successful large publications, she has collaborated with planetary brands and icons similar Beyoncé, Bad Bunny, Rosalía and Nike.