Project in collaboration with Adela Goldbard under the name of (El Coyote Cojo) 

Phantom Limb is a long term project revolving around the artificial legs of Mexico’s most polemic politician Antonio López de Santa Anna, captured by the Illinois Army in 1847 and currently on display at the Illinois Military Museum.The leg was also used as a bat to play baseball the day after it was captured. Using the phantom limb as a metaphor of the lost territory, the project analyzes how historical and military narratives have been interpreted by both México and the U.S. to reflect on the politics of display, memory and spectacle regarding the use of body parts as relics, dioramas and battle re-enactments.

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