Everything Is Horrible. Things have never been outright good but horrible might best describe them now. I have always been an optimist. Perhaps a pessimistic optimist but someone with more hope than despair. But the events beginning, let’s say, about five years...
“Dalang on the Border” brings the ritual puppet master of Asian drama to our desert borderlands of northern Mexico and southwestern USA. He plays his fighting cocks across the border stage. Around him, spirits from this shifting edge of empire reflect the...
Time dissociates particles and obliterates standpoints. In this way, the spatial domains of our social lives are formed. Being at home for weeks, I feel more acutely how time fractures a house into rooms and how spending morning in bed or night in the kitchen –with no...
COVID-19 has upended life as we know it. Much of what is familiar has changed or has adapted as society deals with the new reality. The image, “One Way Aisle!,” depicts a newly implemented safety measure that promotes physical distancing to protect shoppers as they...
My most recent work brings to light a number of topics that not only reflect my own humanity as a Mexican-American, but a wider range of borderland, Latinx, and contemporary societal issues. On a broader note, I explore and investigate personal socio-political...
