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 an honest self portrait: i have awkward farmer's tan gradient lol

"Holy Death is our savior, our light… She protects those no one else will protect."

So excited to finally post these! I had the wonderful opportunity to work with High School ESL students in the OC area to write children's stories. Each of them came in English and a second language, depending on what the author was also fluent in (Spanish the most common). Just yesterday, we self-published them cartonera-style to children in Santa Ana. The same wonderful people who collaborated on the CRC mural needed another illustrator for their team, and I accepted! All of the teens were really enthusiastic so it was fun the entire way though (almost kinda sad to see it come to an end!)

I’d also like to FINALLY post an honorable project. I had the wonderful opportunity to paint a ‘mini-mural’ for CSUF’s Chicana and Chicano Resource Center, along with other wonderful community folks. Each of us planned, sketched, and painted all of the little figures on here. The sizing of the mural had to be smaller and portable due to the possibility of the Center moving locations sometime in the future.

Our goal was to have students be able to seem themselves represented in the CRC (often called “A Home Away From Home”). It was the Center’s gift to them. The biggest issue was this project started during the summer, when no one was really around! So I created several Google Forms with questions and posted it on social media. Students then put their input or stories of what they wanted to see on the little mural and....voilà!

Whoops! Completely forgot to upload these. I had the opportunity to take an oil painting class for school, and....surprisingly, I enjoyed it! Learned a lot in a few months. Painting isn’t my strongest medium so it was a really difficult process.

A tiny zine I made really quickly to hand out at OC Zine fest 2016. It was was specifically folded to be about palm sized and opened up to have a poster! I got stuck thinking of a topic so I thought “What do I love most? Polka dots!”