Ricardo Ruiz | Pink Boots

Resident Artist Project

AIR worked with Ricardo Vicente Jose Ruiz for eighteen months supported via a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ricardo had been developing a lexicon of images and situations related to folkloric evolution of faith healing. The images present disparate scenes of migration and reflection as characters query their place in the universe. The work suggests a nonlinear history of the role immigration plays in occupying lands and locating one's self within the lens of indigenous and minority populations