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The title references colonial Spanish laws that disadvantaged citizens of Jewish and Muslim descent, and later set the ground for New World prejudices. Each shirt is deconstructed and sewn into a skin-like quilt. I then soak these quilts in pig’s blood, a symbol of filth in Jewish and Muslim traditions, but a redeemed animal within a Christian/Catholic context. Building upon these complex histories, the work questions the identity of displaced persons within a current U.S. context.