New Exhibition With MUZEO in Anaheim// Updates
Been a minute homie, how yall living?
I’ve almost forgotten how to write for an audience but I’m going to just go ahead and write.
If you’ve kept up with the work I have been posting on Instagram, you’ve seen that I have had my hands full. Even during this pandemic, I have managed to get a lot of things done, shoot a ton and even travel within the state (staying safe of course).
The biggest piece of news of course is my new EXHIBITION with the MUZEO in Anaheim!! This has been months of planning and waiting on the city and other exhibitions to be fulfilled and now one of my many dreams of being a photographer has been fulfilled. Words can’t express how grateful I am for Katie and Ritz who have helped and facilitated the process along the way. Without their open-mindedness and creative pitches on how to have the exhibition, there wouldn’t be one that would be so striking and in your face.
I detailed the intent of the project in past posts and it’s on the didactic of the exhibition above, but my heart went into this project. Even when beginning to shoot this project, I told my partner, Leslye, that this body of work was accumulating to make an impact. It would speak volumes on our culture and the resiliency of our people. And here we are, with the work being exposed to the public for all to see.
The exhibition is available to see at Carnegie Plaza by the MUZEO in Downtown Anaheim for the public to enjoy. It includes 30 large 26-30 vinyl decal prints that are placed on the floor of the plaza. The reasoning behind this was to showcase and detail how marginalized and immigrant working-class folx are the ground beneath our feet, a large part of our labor workforce that allow society to retain some normalcy during the pandemic, right in our faces but are still stepped on when talks of bringing them support is placed on the table to talk about. Even though many of us are in a position of privilege where we can work from home, members of our communities cannot have that luxury, putting them in a risky position of being infected by this virus that has already killed so many of our folx at a highly disproportionate rate.
My exhibition will be available to the public from April 8th to the 28th. Go check it out, have these conversations and contribute to your local mutual aid organizations to support our marginalized and immigrant communities in Anaheim. REFER TO @anaheimautonomouscoalition @ocprotests @Uci4cola
As far as updates for my next project, I am still digging up my identity as a Chicano, a child of immigrant parents who still lived a comfortable life, which made me subconsciously assimilate into colonized spaces. This began with my family heritage, our way of living, and the place we live in. I have begun two new projects, a documentary series on the gentrification of Anaheim Blvd and the physical creation of my family tree. Both of these are forcing me to look back into my past experiences and appreciate the memories I have as well as the lengths my family has endured to stay together throughout so many hardships. Our home on Anaheim Blvd has been our rock, ever grand and cluttered and living in that home, a family filled with resilient individuals, caring, loving, apprehensive at times but never split.
I will detail more about these projects in a future post but for now, my idea is to create a hardcover book with this project to have solid documentation of these realizations and memories.
ALSO, IVE UPDATED MY SITE!!! My portraiture portfolio has been updated with some new heat that includes friends family and other interesting individuals I’ve encountered. I have also added a commissioned album artwork gallery. I have been collaborating with other artists making commissioned pieces for their album or singles artwork. Check it out and reach out if you, yourself are looking to have some commissioned work done.
I’ll leave y’all with that for now. Much love homies.
Please go check out my exhibition at the MUZEO! Let me know what yall think.
talk to yall soon.