09/05/2026
We believe that art makes the room. It is also incredibly
personal.
We found this important work, Andes Inverted #1, oil and soil on canvas, by Daniela Rivera Daniela Rivera at SMFA at Tufts MFA. Literally incorporating materials from the soil, this painting explores copper mining’s disruptive impacts in the artist’s homeland —at once environmental, political, cultural, and psychological—and evokes the paradox faced by Chuquicamata miners, many of whom described the jobs and joy provided by the same mine that consumed their homes, memories, and landscape. Rivera explains “their labor is both productive and destructive, the self-sabotage is the complexity
of the place.” Curating artwork that has meaning is another way for our work to powerfully elevate one’s lived experience in personal spaces.
📷 Jared Kuzia
🔨 FBNConstruction
🖼 Daniela Rivera via SMFA at Tufts MFA
