lowgo, 2002

The Lowgo project started in 2002 when I was able to visit Guatemalan villages in the highlands, and hear the women’s stories about how NAFTA had devastated their communities by drawing young people away and into urban sweatshops, trapping them in landless poverty. It struck me that corporations act as a single cell, greedy and isolated, in competition with each other. I declared myself obsolete as an individual human and for a few years spent my time collecting traditional indigenous Guatemalan cloth and embroidering designs for the logos of fictitious corporations preying on economic hardship in the developing world.