Acrylic paintings from 11.5” x 11” to 5” x 7”
These acrylic paintings were created after the massacre in El Paso, Texas on August 3, 2019. A domestic terrorist traveled to El Paso to target Latinos he accused of invading America. With the rise of anti-Latino rhetoric from politicians and the rise of anti-Latino hate crimes in the United States, I, like so many Latinos, felt like a target. I painted a series of targets because I wanted to reflect on a climate in which anti-latino and anti-immigrant rhetoric was creating hostile and deadly situations for people in the United States.