the voices of today’s youth will be unignorable

The piece asks, “What’s next?? - urging the viewer to both reflect on the dangerous possibilities bound to unfold and to challenge them to look beyond slogans and reflect on whether our institutions truly serve the public and our future. “Make America America Again” because the nation we intended it to be and the one we are living in today is completely unrecognizable.

This work engages with the question of Southern voting power by recognizing and critically challenging the oversimplification of the South—and, in turn, its residents—as a bigoted monolith, a stain of Reconstruction's failures.

my body learned freedom before i learned the word. it learned it in my grandmother’s kitchen— turmeric staining fingertips gold, prayers counted on beads worn smooth by years of wanting, food made slowly, deliberately, as if nourishment itself were

A story exploring how freedom manifests in diverse ways while examining its potential to transform the world and embody its true essence.

My art piece is meant to describe the experience of someone like me, someone who is a second generation latino.