de aquí y de allá

August 2020Mixed media, installation40 x 60” per portraitArtist Statement:This portrait installation is exhibited in Searching for Home and navigates the duality of fighting rejection from the country I call home and of holding on to fading memories of the home I left behind. I can’t help but still think of Mexico as my first experience of home and at the same time feel that I am also home in the United States, surrounded by the community I have created for myself. I am both Mexican and American—soy de aquí y de allá.The butterflies are hand-cut from prints on museum-quality archival paper designed with layers of my Mexican birth certificate and my immigration story, which is the first chapter in my upcoming book. These paper monarchs weave in and out, permeating through a border-like structure and connect my past and present interpretations of home.

August 2020

Mixed media, installation

40 x 60” per portrait

Artist Statement:

This portrait installation is exhibited in Searching for Home and navigates the duality of fighting rejection from the country I call home and of holding on to fading memories of the home I left behind. I can’t help but still think of Mexico as my first experience of home and at the same time feel that I am also home in the United States, surrounded by the community I have created for myself. I am both Mexican and American—soy de aquí y de allá.

The butterflies are hand-cut from prints on museum-quality archival paper designed with layers of my Mexican birth certificate and my immigration story, which is the first chapter in my upcoming book. These paper monarchs weave in and out, permeating through a border-like structure and connect my past and present interpretations of home.

Learn more about my De Aquí y de Allá installation for Searching for Home at Agnes Scott College’s Atlanta’s Dalton Gallery

Video: “Covid-safe Art Exhibition Searching for Home Open at Atlanta’s Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College” by KPKinteractive