On The Cover

Memory Weaving: Mi Mamá y Yo y El Árbol Grande, 2025
by Cielo Zuñiga
Textile fibers from childhood blanket and mom’s dresses, branches from their favorite tree, 22” x 16”

Artist’s Statement 

What do you do when you feel your childhood slipping from your fingers as you inch further and further from the life you used to know? You trim some branches off your favorite tree. You hunt for the clothes of your family members and yours in the time capsule of your childhood home that’s being torn down for renovations. You create a memory weaving in an attempt to stitch together memories of a time to which you cannot return; an attempt to hold onto the way things were just a bit longer.

Cielo Zuñiga is a self-taught multimedia artista fronteriza from Edinburg in South Texas. They have exhibited work in the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Austin, and Florida. Their work delves into their relationship with grief, love, memory, and identity using fibers, video, and soft sculpture to create tangible representations of these concepts. Cielo believes working with fiber sets an intimate atmosphere for inter-generational emotional resonance in their work. Cielo is a former Daphne Art Foundation artist-in-residence.