Sandra Haydee Alonso

Haydee Alonso is a multidisciplinary artist based in Juárez/El Paso. She focuses on jewelry and object making.  Having grown up in the U.S.-Mexico border region, she is intimately familiar with the exploration of creative solutions for divided spaces, with an aim to facilitate interaction as opposed to further recognizing the imposition of a line that forbids it. Experiences with and reflections of the delineation in space and geography represented by the idea of a joint separation, has stimulated her body of work where two beings interact in a predesigned set of dynamics. This is manifested by her design of jewelry/objects that act as both a separator and a connector between two or more people. A border has a conclusive purpose, which may be surreptitiously open to interpretation: it either separates that which is not us, or it builds a bridge between yours and mine. Haydee believes jewelry serves the same purpose: it is an intermediary between selves. Jewelry is an extension of our identity; where one ends, the other begins.