I have been creating art for most of my life. As a shy and sensitive child growing up along the US/Mexico border, I entertained myself for hours with a bag of multi-colored fabric scraps from my mother's sewing. My mother was a midwife and I was pressed into service as her assistant at age eleven. It was these early years growing up in South Texas that have had the most influence on my work.
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The faces I carefully studied of the many women and newborns that passed through our home I portray in my work today. I seek to honor and celebrate my Mexican roots in my...more
