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graphite, ink 2017
2017
pastels 2016
The women of El Salvador have endured horrific circumstances. Through out the despair of war and the violence it brings, they have kept our culture, our people alive, even if it meant taking up arms. This piece shows their beauty and grace, adorned with Mayan glyphs representing time, and wearing a traditional dress with the colors of our beloved flag.
conté crayons 2016
We’ve all heard about the gangs of El Salvador, if you haven’t it doesn’t take much, type in the country’s name and boom! Gangs in El Salvador are a direct cause of the United States involvement in the Salvadorian civil war. As a way to make amends, refugees were taken in. Those refugees had no choice but to leave, or endure one of the bloodiest conflicts in the Americas. The children of the refugees had to bind together in order to defend themselves against an inhospitable country, so gangs were formed, in order to survive the living situations assigned to them. Gangs escalated in the streets of L.A. California, and eventually gang members in their late teens and early twenties were deported back to El Salvador, a world all but unknown to them, men and women who barely remember when they were torn away from their homeland.
This piece shows a vulnerable Salvadorian child’s future being silenced by gang culture. The names of the gangs, and their origin make up the attacking mass, while the child built of his ancient culture, the Maya.
ink 2015
Monseñor Oscar Romero ink 2015
Monseñor Romero, who supported the poor during the civil war and is disliked by the upper class will become a saint of the Catholic Church. This idea did not sit well with the wealthy of El Salvador.
The pattern that makes up the positive space of the portrait, are time, and period glyphs from the Maya civilization. This piece gives inspiration and strength, even to those not familiar with this political icon. Representing that time passes and all things must end good or bad.
Ink 2015
ink 2014
All too often we refer to the United States of America, as America. Let us all remember that we are America as a whole, beautiful diverse continent full of history, life, and struggle, in the hope of one day standing as one.
2001
Pastels
2008
Graphite
2011
watercolor
watercolors, color pencils, charcoal
WE ARE, ARE WE. ink 2015
The Maya believed that butterflies are our ancestors coming back to this realm of life. This design symbolizes all of consciousness that has ever existed. Animal, plant, and matter all organized form a swirling disk. The glyphs are original designs grouped into quarters. Each one is specifically design for that organism. From top left clockwise, animal, plant, bacteria, and fungi. We are all made of star dust.
