Conquest of Teotihuacan - 9"x12" Canvas Art Print

Archival high-quality signed art print on canvas. You will receive a print of my original painting, "Conquest of Teotihuacan," in size 9" by 12" signed. Gold Foil embellished. 

Artwork Statement 

 Conquest of Teotihuacan explores the themes of identity, indigeneity, and cultural transformation. From my personal experience as an undocumented immigrant, I wanted to voice the inner conflicts of coming to terms with connecting with my Mexican heritage while integrating and assuming the identity of the American culture I've been raised in. I've struggled to reconcile what it means to be of one place and live in another that seems to be hostile to what I hope to understand and incorporate into myself. This piece expands on the myth of La Malinche and her story of cultural loss and birth of Mexica blood. Surrounded by raining liquid gold, she finds her face split between three identities preservation, survival, and grief. I felt this painting connected to the experience of undocumented immigrants who similarly have to redefine their culture to integrate successfully into a new world through a system of personal erasure.  Carrying the themes of past historical works that realize la Malinche as a survivor in the face of cultural genocide and the mother of modern Mexican identities. I wanted to share my personal feelings of having so much yearning to connect with a culture that has been erased and a culture that is still alive but built around the wholes left behind from colonization and immigration.