Read Past Curfew

Malcolm X, Learning to Read.

Mental Space 4

Kara Walker, Part 1

Mental Spaces 3

Kara Walker, Part 2

Inversion

Mental Spaces 2

Principals of Non-Violence

Mental Spaces 1

Full

Winston Churchill, Painting as a Pastime

Who, What, and What

A monkey and a critic

Surface and substance

Mental Spaces 5

An Atheist, A Priest, Rilke, and Me

Hand vs. Machine

Read Past Curfew

The Read Past Curfew is a series of textile embroideries and fabric collages on muslin at approximately twenty six inches square. The title nods to a sense of self surveillance and societal limitations from George Orwell’s 1984. The first panel, Painting as a Pastime by Winston Churchill is an excerpt from his book. Molina takes a shift in her textile work with embroidered words, scaled into an more intimate approach, the viewer is required to step closer to observe the stitching to read the content. Often panels include excerpt texts from Kara Walker, a Priest, Sol Lewitt, Malcolm Gladwell, Malcolm X, and others. The second part of the Read Past Curfew series consist of drawing, painting, and fabric compositions within the square with empty fields. The simplistic approach to the series reserves space for dialogue and thoughts, unlearning and emptying mental weight while insinuating space for potential words.