FAMILY LEGACY, 2023

FAMILY LEGACY 2023 shown at THE CHEECH MARIN CENTER FOR CHICANO ART AND CULTURE , THE RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM.

By appropriating one of my families most treasured documents, my late  grandfather’s Bracero ID card, and transferring it’s image onto a white silk flag attached to a brass pole, floating like a ghost; I am symbolizing a piece offering between an extinct culture from a long gone generation with the progress and evolution of their current descendants. 

It has taken me most of my life to understand that the patriarchy was imposed on me and my family by the culture we come from, and it takes individuals like me to undo that heritage. Personally, I realized this after the passing of my grandmother, a strong Mexican woman that suffered the struggles of being left alone with her 12 children when my abuelo traveled north. She endured plenty, yet lived a very long life because of her husband’s earned privileges as a worker in the US. 

This flag honors my grandparents.