🌟Hijxs de la lucha🌟
A piece reflecting on a lot of different people from my community and those I love dearly.
Hijxs de la lucha is a reflection on different conversations, folx I love in the community and the youth, both our past selves, the youth now and the future generations.
Featuring: references to the swapmeet bootleg masks, reference to
@nuu_savi_nails a reference to the compañera
@mitzi.jan collective huipiles, an unnamed luchador I keep drawing, the kites in Tlaxcala, a jaguar with a corn necklace from
@taller_laguna (based back home), a muñeca lele from the otomi community but also referencing
@oxnard.mayor a black panther with a spiked collar, farmworkers in the background, a Zapatista with his soccer ball & a hummingbird with its machete, referencing b & conejo, a Palestinian youth with a dove, wearing a bracelet from
@xochipilli.jewelry as it’s using a slingshot, launching a dove and the eye of a z*on*st.
Overall a tribute to the homies <3
I think of how folx often try to dissuade conversations that make them uncomfortable under the bias of not having everything be political, when every moment of our lives has been politicized and put us in struggle, against our own autonomy. Of how our justified rage is made to be commodified and watered down to stop those who’ve caused harm from being offended or angered. I think of the youth made to be mature, when they are still children, with wants and wishes to just be .
A piece honoring those who fight for a better world, those who’ve inherited this fight & those who help uphold each other.
Honored to have been invited to partake in this years
@labulla 10th year anniversary, this year will be a fundraiser for
@superchiefgalleryla so pull through!