Daniel Ramos
New York, USA
Visual
Artist in Residence, 2025
↗ http://www.danielramosphoto.com/
Artist Statement
I am an artist making sculptures, large-scale photomontages, mixed media installations, and photographs with a large format 4×5 film camera. I work with family heirlooms, memorabilia, archives, and my own photographs to preserve and reveal my cultural and personal history. The common thread in my work is immigration, its aftereffects, the emotional impact of moving between countries and states, and how longing effects the psyche.
While at Headlands
My goal for my current project is to express a universal relationship to intrusion as this issue relates to our current political climate and the influence of the pandemic on our world in recent years. I would like to make an analogy between biological intrusions that occur in the body and human migration to foreign countries for survival. While at the Headlands, I plan to immerse myself in the native flora of Marin County to make conceptual and abstract photographs and drawings that represent the physiology in a living organism. As I make this new work, I will focus on what is at the core of our mutual humanity, and one’s will to persevere, to live a dignified life.
