I create comics and zines that bring together a wide range of sources to create multilayered narratives about cultural conflict, the scars of colonialism and unheard microhistories. My comics are an ...
moreI create comics and zines that bring together a wide range of sources to create multilayered narratives about cultural conflict, the scars of colonialism and unheard microhistories. My comics are an attempt to linearly trace current events to historical tipping points, often at the hands of an aggressor.
Official history can have a flattening effect, one that reduces events to dates and figures. My comics reflect the belief that historical truth is closer to more complex often contradictory individual stories. Focusing on certain strands of my Mexican-American heritage, my narratives also act as critiques of aggressor nation policies towards the Americas. These include European colonialism and the subsequent genocide and subjugation of native peoples and the devastating effects of U.S.-fueled civil wars in the 1970s.
Comics compartmentalize images and words in the way that human brains do, reflecting the disparate nature of memory. My comics take the reader back and forth across time to both reflect this compartmentalizing effect and reveal the illusions of power structures by tracing them back to their sources.