2018. Acrylic
This first piece is about my childhood, you can see the focus of this painting is a plate on exhibit. This plate is composed of two different patterns. All throughout elementary school, I would wake up in Matamoros, Mexico and cross the border to go to school in Brownsville, Texas. Every morning, I would have breakfast on a Kellogg's plate and every afternoon, I would have lunch on a blue ceramic plate lined with flowers. I chose to combine the two plate patterns to represent the intermediate cultural state that I grew up in on the US/MX border. The plates that resemble talavera, were made in China while the Kellogg’s plates were made in Colombia. Ironically, neither’s country of origin is representative of the culture they symbolize in my life.
