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Alexander Carreon
2022
Acrylic paint

For this piece I wanted to display the beauty within food that comes from Mexico. I painted dishes that have special meanings to me or are important to my family to show my connection to my Mexican heritage. I also included a butterfly as the tamale to represent how I wouldn’t have had this amazing food without my mom who immigrated here from Mexico.

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I worked on this with Trajan King and Darcy Manzi

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Alex Carreon. Chalk pastel, 12x16in, September 8 2021

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Chalk Pastel Still Life

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These thumbnails all portray some sort of Mexican legends. The first on shows la llorona, the woman who drowns kids by bodies of water, the second shows la pascualita who is a corpse disguised as a mannequin, and the third shows la chupacabras who is a goat eating monster

**I changed this idea from the previous mind map

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For this piece I would modernize it by making the people on their laptops and it would be a Starbucks

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I would modernize this by making it a young girl wearing headphones and listening to music

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For this project I will be making a piece about my cultural identity. My theme is about how I encounter struggles and empowerment of being Mexican American. For this piece, I will be explaining how because I ignored my heritage and language of Mexico, I have become disconnected from my culture and am forgetting my descendents. I will be painting this in a mexican painting style similar to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two famous Mexican artists. I wish to use gouache for this piece

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For this pice I would change the cultural context by painting La Virgen de Guadalupe instead.

***I CHOSE THIS ONE

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For this project I changed the cultural context by implementing the Virgen de Guadalupe’s face and clothes as she is an important symbolic figure in Mexican culture.

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Mona Lisa and Virgen de Guadalupe (final)

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Mona Lisa and Virgen de Guadalupe (final)

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For this project I made a piece about the idea of life and death and the beauty of both. A lot of times, especially in America, Death is something that is ignored and swept under the rug because of its depressing connotations. In my piece I wanted to offer a more optimistic mood to the concept of death and provide it with a new, not as scary, meaning.

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For this project I want to create a poster surrounding the idea of the American dream. I also wanted to create it in the format of a lotería card, a popular Mexican board game, referencing how the American dream is viewed by people from my culture.

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This is a digital piece of a bridge leading to a castle. I wanted to bring the attention to the castle in the back with the bridge leading to it while also having the dunes next to it.