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Re: Constructing Self
Senior Thesis Exhibition Show
My work consists of 4 individual works within the installation. There are two large scale, abstract collage hanging works and there are two sculptural works. Materials used are both scavenged from construction sites and purchased.
This is a reckoning. This is a place where I’ve pieced together the fragments of who I am – who I’ve been made to be – and what I still don’t fully understand.
I’m a Chicano, first-generation college student from San Antonio, TX. I’ve navigated a predominantly white private highschool and college that have both delivered me immense privilege and stripped away parts of me I never thought I’d lose. This work is a reflection of that.
I use roofing underlayment, shingles, tar, cement, OSB, bricks and other common construction materials as my words to tell the story. Through sculpture and collage I use abstraction to I expose and recontextualize the weight of assimilation and the friction of belonging that I have carried. Each work here is a form of self portraiture. I let the disjointed, the fractured and the layered tell the new story of wholeness that is now me.
This work is an ongoing conversation with myself. It’s about making sense of how I’ve changed, adapted, and been forced into something I didn’t recognize then reforming a new me from that journey.
I invite you into that conversation. I’m making space for something that feels true to me – something that isn’t defined by any labels or conforming to some standard. This work is an unabashed reckoning of my own experience in the world.
