Daisy Velasco

“En Mi Casa” (In My House) is a body of work that explores the psychological narrative of my childhood through a sequence of fragmented memories and emotional events. It reflects on my experience growing up in the same Mexican household since the day I was born. Over time, memories begin to fade, faces blur, objects lose their shape, and you begin to question what was real. Sometimes, it’s not even about what you saw, but what you heard, and what you felt. My work is an intimate dialogue between presence and absence, noise and silence, truth and recollection. At its core, this work confronts the burden of maintaining a picture-perfect family image while living within a chaotic home marked by disruption and male dominance.

To embody these psychological tensions and memories, I turned to 3D papier-mâché as both a material and metaphor way to connect personal memory with cultural tradition. One inspiration comes from my grandfather, who still makes piñatas by hand using cardboard and tissue paper, a craft deeply rooted in Mexican heritage. Another influence is the everyday ritual of hanging clothes on a T-pole clothesline, something I’ve done since childhood. I remember running through the wet blankets flapping in the breeze, imagining the garments coming to life. My imagination would transform sleeves and pant legs into animated forms, interacting as if they had stories of their own. This playful memory has evolved into a body of work that gives shape to invisible figures, expressions of both childhood wonder and unresolved emotional weight.