@darth_rudo • Cosechando El Mal, Colored Pencil Drawing •
5 Questions:
1. Born in Chicago but moved to my families hometown in Jalisco until the age of 10, when were turned to the States in order to be closer to the rest of our family. Assimilating back into American culture, learning the language, learning the system was the biggest struggle I faced as a kid and it shaped me into the person and artist that I am today.
2. Finding community in Chicago/Cicero was something that may have saved my life and it allowed the rest of my family to feel like we had something that resembled a home.
3. I will always have a strong connection to Jalisco. Representing my Mexican people, mi Raza, is one of my main focuses in my art. It is what inspires to continue honoring myself and the people closest to me.
4. When I make art, I feel that I’m tapping into an energy that lives in me – through my ancestors, my family, my history, my roots.
5. One of the goals in my art is to inspire other brown artists and non artists to embrace their culture, express their pride, their struggles, their individuality.
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Bio | Art Statement
Visual artist, based in Cicero. Art inspired by Chicano culture, brown resistance, anti colonialism, and anti fascism. Representing my people and my community through my art is the way that I honor myself, my ancestors and my roots.
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