Teresita Fernández: Wayfinding

This stunning book is the first comprehensive publication on the internationally renowned Cuban American artist Teresita Fernández. The idea of wayfinding—moving from place to place or even getting lost—is critical to understanding this artist’s body of work, which revolves around themes of landscape, the night sky, and other environments. "We have a tendency to think of landscape as something outside ourselves, and that’s a notion that I want to invert," Fernández states. Rich full-page, full-color illustrations show Fernández’s unusual use of natural materials such as graphite, pyrite, gold, and malachite, as well as industrial materials such as acrylic, plastic, and glass to create large-scale, experiential works inspired by land formations, water, and other natural phenomena. The lush images are matched with excerpts from Fernández’s own writings, plus critical essays which give the reader insight into Fernández’s creative process.