My illustration work focuses on reflecting the true narratives of the South Texas/Mexico border. The false & dominant narratives that justify the border wall, surveillance, violence, and the criminalization of migrants, also make us feel we have no inherit value or worth. I hope that my illustrations are like a mirror, reflecting our true collective beauty and cultural wealth.
Mi trabajo se enfoca en reflejar las narrativas verdaderas de la frontera del sur de Texas y Mexico. Las narrativas falsas y dominantes que justifican el muro, la vigilancia militarizada, la violencia y la criminalización de los migrantes, también nos hace sentir que no tenemos ningún valor. Espero que mis ilustraciones sean como un espejo, reflejando nuestra verdadera belleza colectiva and riqueza cultural.
Commissioned by the Sierra Club for their podcast “Breaking the Cycle”
Cover of Frontiers, Journal of Women Studies Volume 44, Issue 2, 2023
Commissioned by Race Forward, for their Butterfly Lab Narrative Change Toolkit
Image made to show the violence and terror of the U.S Border Patrol in border communities
This image was made during the 2020 U.S presidential election, and when a fly kept landing on Mike Pence during a vice-presidential debate.
Commissioned by We are the Bilingual Generation Podcast, Talking with Grandma
Image made in solidarity with Palestine
Image made to express that identity is not always tied to nationality. For me, my identity comes from my matriarchs and from the land I grew up on. This also comes wrapped with the criminalization and violence first created by the colonial powers, then the U.S Empire.
Image made to reflect the history of the Virgen de Guadalupe, during Spanish colonization, catholicism was violently imposed on the native people. The Virgen de Guadalupe, was really Tonanzin, in Náhuatl language, means our mother. She is mother earth, not the passive virgen archetype presented by the catholic church.