Postcard 4x6 | Immigration Without Integration

4x6 Postcard 

Each Print is handmade, signed, and embellished with acrylic and varnish. Comes with an additional piece of statement card.

Artwork Statement: 

With this piece, I wanted to funnel the conversations of immigration as an undocumented immigrant. I wanted to explore the experience of my father and mother, which is shared among many other immigrant parents. The hope of migrating in the sight of the children they love, placing a faith within a land unfamiliar to them, away from the earth they called home. Untying the fibers of themselves in the hopes that their children find better threads to create and grow. It is an uncertainty, and yet an undeniable yearning worth so much sacrifice. My father left Mexico five years before the rest of my family emigrated, sacrificing seeing his mother pass away and my birth so that our family would have the money to safely cross the border.  I wanted to recreate that unimaginable sacrifice with a piece that integrated love and understanding of his world. Being isolated and faded into the colors of the background, I see that his experiences are often ignored as an undocumented immigrant. A parent's love for their child is represented through the careful act of embroidery suspended and surrounded by a frantic need to hold the world together. I know my parents have done so much for me to see the world as beautiful, and I only hope to relieve the tension in the strings they have held for so long. This painting is tied to a wooden backing through sewn slipknots, it is not perfect, but it holds this world together.