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I
feel the need to assert my identity in the most militant way possible because
otherwise, as an American, I am invisible. In a culture where nothing happens
until it happens on TV, I don’t exist. As an educated, native-born, English-speaking,
fifth-generation Mexican American and a feminist, there is almost no reflection
of me in the movies or television, which is almost as bad as being stereotyped.
I like to use and toy with iconographic and stereotypical images in my paintings
so that I may become the iconoclast. I often use my own face in my paintings.
By becoming the stereotype I also break it, because as the artist I have control
of the image and what it conveys to the viewer.
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