​This is a series called “Remain In Mexico”,  I began it in 2019 after seeing the images of children being detained at the US and Mexico border on the news. These paintings depict a child laying down wrapped in a thermal blanket, the only piece of warmth and welcome offered to them in these detention centers. Some paintings focus on raw pink and weary feet from the travel as the main focus and others on the innocent face and eyes. This work is meant to shine a light but also to show the inhumanity of the whole ordeal. 
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​These paintings attempt to capture a bit of what is still very much alive in Los Angeles, Lowrider Culture. Towards the end of the Covid pandemic my husband, a YouTube influencer by the name of LACon began filming Lowrider culture. After being apart from others for so long he and I noticed many people meeting up and sharing their fixed up vintage cars as a way to gather and celebrate outside safely. These works attempt to celebrate the connection lowriding has to the Chicanx community, youth, our past and present and influential aesthetic. 
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Paint what you know.
After teaching teens for the past ten years I knew there would come a time when I could paint what I knew. This work reflects a personal intrigue with present-day American youth culture. It
follows and is in reference to the historical practice of genre painting and evidence of my continued fascination with painting the human figure. It is my hope that the viewer walk away
contemplating today’s youth and the calamity of growing up in a global and digital age.