La Conciencia De Una Mestiza, Textiles, 2024

La Conciencia De Una Mestiza is the relationship between ancestral and contemporary worlds colliding through aprons. Each apron symbolizes caretaking, love of sharing, and expected gender roles within those communities. Being a first-generation Mexican American women in the US, I learned to code-switchbetween two worlds. A world where we need to speak Spanish to connect with elders and a world where you assimilate to the colonizers. The apron on the left depicts the ancestral world where married women became the family matriarch. The apron on the right is the contemporary world where education is a top priority and we are given more life options and choices. While the middle is the blending of both cultures within our family structures, gathering specific aspects of both cultures and owning who we are meant to become. La Conciencia De Una Mestiza binds us to the idea of interrelated materials and aesthetics that relate to the specific region that our ancestors are from, even in contemporary society.

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