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Good talk response art piece

Family

This piece was created as a response to Good talk by Mira Jacob. In her book she talks about the obvious and not so obvious problems with being a person of color in the united states she has a deep connection with her family and how the world perceives them she mentions an idea in the book that truly resonated with me and is actually the reason I created this piece “If you marry me you marry how the world sees me” and to that effect I saw how in myself as a white passing person of color, a different person wouldn't see what they are getting into if they wanted to marry me until they saw where I came from and met my family. My personal identity has always been difficult for me to get grasp on and being so different looking from my other family members did create rifts I hadn't realized until I was older. I am comforted in the fact that my family has had a graveyard in New Mexico where we first homesteaded many years ago that has all my past relatives and presumably all my present and future ones as well, I’ll also be there one day and to my morbid comfort we will all eventually look the same.

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Candy cigarettes the Children of capitalism

Leslie Hall-Lobato

The funny thing about getting older is nobody ever really knows why we want to to so bad. At least as children we all wanted to grow up. And now looking back on it I'm sure each of us would think twice before wishing that on the people we hadn't become yet. Tell them to slow down and wait a bit longer before wishing away innocence in exchange for control. The innocence was capitalized on from the get go, from commercials dictating objects in exchange for happiness portraying happy families with an excess of material goods and toys targeting children making people the real consumable goods. Huge marketing firms and venture capitalist alike saw an opportunity in the naivety of children and how easy it would be to make cash grabs at us. As hypocritical as it sounds, one of my personal favorite childhood memories involved one of these hoodwinked advertisements, candy cigarettes. It's ironic to think such a thing used to be commonplace in small town candy shops, something as damaging as cigarettes where pink and blue bubble gum gifted in ribbons. I'd stop by the shop and grab a pack every now and then and eat them with haste outside the bar where my mom worked watching the patrons laughing as I blew big big bubbles in the window. Not knowing one day their laughing would stop and the packs I'd buy wouldn't be bubble gum after all. Funny how I'm still laughing but now it's for a different reason. This piece is dedicated to the laughing and how we were all sold something we never wanted to buy.

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To morn

To want

To choke

To believe

To burn

To drift

To crawl To laugh

To drift To grow

To want To flee

To envy To believe

To breath To run

To smile To burn

To hold To wail

To wave To mourn

To choke To swallow

To whisper To be

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Untitled Lights Out, Worlds Gone This piece is a recreation of a love letter to the moon from the perspective of moths done as a music video. The black and white film is representing an old life and like moths we too had to adapt to have our love. Why do moths love the moon? Long ago before humans created artificial light moths used the moon to travel to find mates and orient their lives. There is no true moon in this piece, just a black hole with me inside talking the place of the moon. Taking the figurative place of love and importance it had, wanting to be more than the moon and have that love for myself.

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