Amaya Estrada: Bury Me in Palms
The Creative Arts School is proud to present Amaya Estrada: Bury Me in Palms. Bury Me in Palms is a multidisciplinary series by artist Amaya Estrada, featuring handmade prints, ceramics, and mixed-media works that center material exploration and process. The exhibition brings together a body of work rooted in experimental printmaking, cyanotypes, and hand-built techniques, emphasizing the tactile, time-intensive nature of making. Richly textured surfaces and layered compositions reflect an intuitive engagement with natural elements, allowing material and environment to guide each outcome.
Grounded in personal memory, the work explores the interconnected themes of family and ecology through the lens of Afro-Caribbean symbolism and visual language. Organic forms, botanical references, and recurring motifs act as carriers of cultural knowledge, connecting inherited histories to the landscapes that shape them. Through layering, repetition, and fragmentation, Estrada examines the complexities of cultural identity, duality, and displacement, creating works that move between presence and absence, permanence and erosion.
Situated between memory and place, Bury Me in Palms reflects on the evolving nature of belonging, how it is formed, fractured, and reimagined over time. By merging traditional and experimental methods, the exhibition offers a quiet yet resonant meditation on the relationships between material, ancestry, and environment, inviting viewers to consider how personal and collective histories are held within the handmade.
About Amaya Estrada
Amaya Estrada is an interdisciplinary artist based in South Florida whose practice spans sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and experimental processes. Her work explores cultural identity, duality, displacement, and belonging through personal narrative and environmental inquiry, drawing inspiration from the landscapes and native flora of South Florida and Puerto Rico.
At the core of her studio practice is an investigation of the tension between environmental art and handmade processes, revealing intersections of personal and ecological displacement. Printmaking functions as a central medium in her work, allowing her to explore themes of diaspora, memory, resistance, and transformation through layered, tactile surfaces.
On view June 5 - August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5 from 6 - 9pm
at the Creative Arts School, 51 N Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444
