We Are the Brujas you didn't get to burn Series-- 2018

"We Are the Brujas you Didn't get to Burn" Series

Bruja in the Oakland-16x"20"

Oil on canvas

Bruja in Los Angeles-16"x20"

Oil on canvas

Bruja in San Francisco- 18"x24"

Oil on canvas

Bruja in the OC- 12"x16"

Silk Screen on Gold Paper

 

2018-2021

Vintage  50's & 60's Inspired Dresses and Tops

 

Pandemic in Purple Series

Pandemic in Purple: Portrait (self)

16"x20"Acrylic on Canvas; 2021

Pandemic in Purple: PPP 

20"x16", Acrylic on Canvas; 2021

Pandemic in Purple: Lighting; 

 16"x20"Acrylic on Canvas; 2021

 

Day of the Dead Show at Sanchez Contemporary

Catrina in Chaos

Acrylic on canvas

My Submission for the Day of the Dead show at Sanchez Contemporary in Oakland. Thank you Maria Sanchez for the beautiful decor.

Screen Prints- Spring 2017

                                                           The Offering

"We are the Brujas you Didn't get to Burn"

Zine- How to Spot a Witch/Bruja

Interior Detail

Assignment #4- The Final Map

    It was a long, but worthwhile, learning process.  I was a bit overwhelmed with the images of my family and friends. I went to Photoshop and made each image into paths and created 5 different shades and took the shapes into illustrator but they weren't translating as well in Illustrator. So I just took the gradient images and made them transparent with a map in a layer underneath. But eventually I gave the attention that they deserved.

The task of fitting of the images inside of the designated maps proved the biggest challenge. 

The next challenge in this project was matching up the maps so that they overlapped or that they showed the same area to scale.  I had 15 google maps screenshots for each move. I figured the proximity of the locations was what was important.

 I decided to make zoom-in windows of the the Valley and LA Maps. The key is crucial in understanding the chronology of the moves.

   And Finally the titles I chose are a throwback to one of my favorite movies as a kid, "An American Tale". I looked up the font used and I was able to download it for free from Font Meme.com.  I gave the same details that are show in the movie poster.

             

In the end, I feel satisfied with the final product.

Assignment 4- Landscapes Traveled and Tracked- Update

The steps to make the photos of my family that will get masked into the overall map.

The original photo


Created tone separations into 5 colors


Took them into  Illustrator and did image tracing tool.

Taking shape with the images and map depicting some of the tracks.This is the placed the images inside Illustrator. The El Salvador map (in progress) will also include the photo of my entire family.

Here's more images that will go inside the California map. These are some of the collages in progress.

 

These will be place in Socal. A NorCal photo collage is coming, coming soon.

Assignment 4- Landscapes Traveled and Tracked- Beginning stages

Beginning stages:

Tools: Adobe illustrator, information of migration from my family and my own movements in the us for the past 30 years.

In the beginning stages of the map landscapes. First I traced the maps of the nations. In my migration there are a lot of drops. My mom's there might not be as many in the latter part of the 20th century. But This fores me to see how  withing a small area I've moved around in a small area and brief gaps fo times. What does this say about the financial stability? What does it say about the  dependency of my family? At which era did it begin to settle down?

google images of maps of the countries involve din our migration.

after tracing them on illustrator

stay tuned for more in depth visual tracking as more info from family starts to come in.

Augmented Body Project- Ability to Grow Fur on Command

My augmentation is the ability to grow fur on command when I'm cold. The condition of extreme hair growth is called Hypertrichosis. Even though the ability of growing hair on command is not biologically possible yet the myth of animal and human combination is known in Egyptian, Native American and Meso-American Myths. The Goddess Bastet from Egypt had the head of a black cat and human body and the shamans in Mexico summoned the jaguar spirit during rituals. In movies and pop culture werewolves are only seen as horror and sci-fi movies. Thus the x-files theme song in the animation below. 

Augmemented Body- Progress #2 Hair Brush Test

I Started looking for way to make the transformation pop. I ran across a tutorial that showed how to add facial hair and I went through the steps. It was fun once I learned how to create a brush that looked like a flow of hairs. I started to add facial hair to old photos. It was too much fun!

 Here's the progression for this photo. HAHA!

Meet Pachuca Werewolf! 

Women Represented in Commercials in the 60's: Culture Jam Video- Fall 2016

It took me a few hours to learn the program just enough to work on this video. . It's for an Anthro class we're learning how to "culture jam" at SF State fall 2016. It's a first attempt, so be kind.