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In Situ , 2020
60" x 48"
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In Situ , 2020
60" x 48"
$2400 (excl. tax & shipping)I’ve spent the last 8 years with an obsession for public spaces and street signage. For the piece “In Situ” I wanted to paint three workers against the patterned bright striped chevron to emphasize the lack of visibility at representing and respecting individual day labor workers at the forefront of immense as well as rudimentary transit and engineering projects. At CSULB I was skillfully trained by amazing South Bay painters in both figurative and abstract painting. At times, I’ve found it exploitative to depict the human form but in this project I identified my intent to represent day labor workers felt empowering and uplifting and its not often you see them represented in this light in paintings or art history. The words at the bottom read “It’s also very important because it’s a community altar” and over that another layer of words says “(foreign language)”. The closed captioning at the bottom originally does not relate to the imagery in the painting, but I decided to overlay it to speak to the times were language can often be a social barrier to connecting with someone, and how the social conditioning of rejecting diversity promotes layers of fragmentation and disconnection. It’s morally challenging for me to choose to repurpose the image of a day labor worker, because their bodies are often more than not already exploited. However, the visibility of them in action, is vital and needs to be recorded and represented in an archived object for history and public viewing.
Constructivism , 2020
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 30"
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