Santa Ana al Atardecer

2021, Digital Photographic Print, 32 in by 24 in

"Santa Ana al Atardecer is part of the "Counter Mappings" series of landscapes that uses photographic practices as a way to explore new ways of reading and sensing the world. By using the photograph as a marker of time I attempt to collapse and re-assemble time to generate a new perspective of a place. The goal to use this as an excercise of making to reconsider our place in the world and how everything regardless of time is interconnected and evidently affecting one another."

Entre el Aguacate

2020, Digital Photographic, dimension 36 x 24 in

"The Body as a Temple, the Body as a Home. I’m going through a metaphysical transition. A way to describe it, is entering “nepantla”, what Anzaldua defines as “a psychological, liminal space between the ways things had been and an unknown future.” I turn to the natural world to guide me through this shift. I submit and let it guide me."

Xavier has exhibited nationally and internationally and was an A.I.M Fellow at the Bronx Museum in New York. He holds an MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute. Counter Mappings is a series of landscapes that uses photographic practices as a way to explore new ways of reading and sensing the world. By using the photograph as a marker of time I attempt to collapse and re-assemble time to generate a new perspective of a place. The goal to use this as an exercise of making to reconsider our place in the world and how everything regardless of time is interconnected and evidently affecting one another.