# @corningmuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DCmNwYmp2Lr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27819525-corningmuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e18f2d459a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-11-20T15:03:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Corning Museum of Glass (@corningmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/corningmuseum

## Caption

Our Hot Glass Team brings salvador_jimenez_flores’ vision to life with this glass cactus. 🌵✨
 
Independent Curator angelik.wiki says: Mexican-born artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores immigrated to the US, where art became his primary tool for honoring his heritage while navigating a new culture. Jiménez-Flores creates hybrid forms “to make sense of the double consciousness and the anxieties that the Latine community experiences in the US.

In the ongoing “Nopales Híbridos” series, Salvador uses the resilient cactus as a metaphor for these communities that thrive despite facing systemic oppression. In the context of the overt attacks toward Latine immigrants including the use of tear gas at the border, the separation of detained families and the caging of children, and the fortification of the border wall, Jiménez-Flores’ world is ever more poignant. Since Jiménez-Flores is an immigrant, his personal narrative becomes the narrative of thousands. Inspired by the models of 1920s Mexican Muralism and 1930s Taller de Gráfica Popular, which incorporated political messages into art to unify people and bring about social change, Jiménez-Flores aims to affect change through his work. 

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