rastros (2024) is a series of truck piñatas made from solo auto magazines found in Houston to explore themes of accumulation, car culture, and familial histories of labor through constructing piñatas.
In Miami, a rastro is a self-service junkyard where customers can remove auto parts they need from lined-up cars. I witnessed my father go to the rastro every weekend to gather, collect, and install parts for our family car. I saw my late mother make piñatas with family and friends in Honduras.
My family’s intergenerational practice of making, sorting, and collecting materials in locations like the rastro represents a broad spectrum of interactions with objects, memories, people, and places and invites viewers to consider their relationship with accumulation.