Emergencies Without Language - 9"x12" Canvas Art Print

Archival high-quality signed art print on canvas. You will receive a print of my original painting, "Emergencies Without Language," in size 9" by 12" signed. 

Artwork statement 

This piece explores the experience of fear that many undocumented immigrants face when faced with emergencies. The choice of whether they can call upon the protection of law enforcement or deal with matters themselves. Whether physical, mental, or dire, it seems it is always a weighted matter of what one can sacrifice, suffer, or bear. When my mother was diagnosed with lymphoma for a second time, many things rushed through my mind. Would we be so lucky that she would not be deported this time around? Would her minimum wage work be understanding of her plight and not fire her again? Would our family have enough wages to heal with her? As awful as it seemed, our last thoughts were on whether she was strong enough to face cancer again. It is the plight of undocumented immigrants to suffer in fear.  Scared of losing their hope in a delusional dream of being accepted into a new world, they've spent more than half their life living. These are the emergencies without language, for it does not need communication. It is a shared innate fear of those either born and loved into sacrificing. I feared losing my mother to government deportation more than losing her to cancer. Often this thought doesn't face such a dire opponent; often it is faced during simple traffic stops, domestic abuse house calls, and any moments where we find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Often it is emergencies that call on the humanity of those around us to aid and serve. To pull to the side and aid one who has just crashed their car, but in the minds of undocumented immigrants, they hope that they continue to be ignored and allowed to live in this country to suffer and love another day. And in the scope of the Mexican identity, there is life in death and death in life. Salvation in crisis, and crisis in salvation.