2023 Identity 2 Exhibition

IDENTITY STATEMENT

I come from a broken place. Being a Latino male, I was taught that showing too many emotions was a sign of weakness. I’m hoping that people can sense the strong emotion I’m putting in the air with a stroke from my hands. I feel I have been through many chapters of my life. The evolving story of love and grief while nature took its own wise and inevitable course. The pain has remained imprinted on my skin, the traces will never be erased by others broken love. It has never been easy for me to show my deeper feelings, so unconsciously out of broken habit I taught myself to breathe through my artwork and still I remain attentive, searching for some sign.