- Self-portraits
- Transcendence
- Peace and Prosperity
- We both liked cars, my dad said about his dad
- He loves you a lot, my mom says to me
- Father with his Father
- Look at me, look at me
Artist Statement
Resume/CV
Photolithograph, cut fabric
18 x 12 inches, 2024
My Mom is irrevocably embedded in my DNA like the threads that make up the clothes I wear. I wear her personality, her looks, her laugh, her attitude, her heart everywhere I go. Sometimes my Mom and I must protect ourselves from others and sometimes we must protect ourselves from each other. Our relationship is intimate, but so much so that we must create a barrier in case we consume one another. Through my Mom’s story I have learned how to tell mine. I have learned to love, to give, to be respected, and to always remember where I come from.
This photolithograph is an image of a textile with an embedded photograph of my Mom in 1996, before I was born. Her first selfie maybe? Overexposed, definitely. Her silly all-eyes-on-me personality is captured in this photo, meaning more to me the longer I have sat with it. Without understanding the photo taken before my existence, I would never have had an image of her so unfiltered. So camouflaged today, because of her dedication to shaping her life towards her kids more than to herself. A selfless love, a motherly love, a ruinous love, a brown mom type of love.