AMERICANA HISPANA

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Americana Hispana was one of my earliest projects which I did before my MFA in studio art. It simply elucidated a social statement that the classical eurocentric style could be cannibalized by the culture that the Europeans had simply overridden when they took over the Americas and destroyed the native culture. I was aware of this simply by my mother’s heritage being in part the indigenous Indian culture of the America’s (she was Puerto Rican).
I was also aware of how much the Mexican indigenous culture was an essential element in the early colonial United States, yet it has been relegated to the word ‘alien’ by the ignorant populace that now pervades the United States. I did not have to be Mexican to know this truth that was now buried in ignorance. Mexican heritage was a very important element in many early cities in the United States, they are as much entitled to being considered as founding members of the United States yet never are mentioned as if only the European colonizing culture is significant. This work does not touch upon the American Indian tribes that were destroyed by the colonial invaders, though my mother was of the indigenous people in the Americas that existed here before the invasion, she also had European roots and some African roots in her DNA.