Feelings of an American Futile Dream

^{Mexico City, 2022}

^{Feelings of an American Futile Dream, 2022.
Acrylic and blood on unstretched cotton, 140x203 cm | 55x80.7 inches}

Some years ago, I embarked on the American dream, it could be said that I failed...
With this series of pieces I try to express the feelings one experiences when emigrating. Traveling with hope, entering into a different territory and culture, discovering oneself through a new language, finding oneself within another context, all the while having to demonstrate that you deserve to be there.

Leaving the territory that defines us, the cathartic transformation one goes through when crossing a border, gaining an opportunity to redefine ourselves, reaching another land only to realize that everything we truly are we carry within, that countries are nothing more than bureaucracies, that a geographical location does not really matter since the first territory we inhabit is the body itself and as we begin to inhabit it any other territory fades into the background, as the experience of inhabiting oneself with acceptance and diligence eclipses even the most beautiful land.

^{“Acantilado de Sensaciones Preciosas”, 2022

Acrylic and blood on unstretched cotton, 155 x 227 cm | 61 x 89.7 inches}

^{“Found a Treasure Within”, 2022. Acrylic and blood on unstretched cotton, 155 x 227 cm | 61 x 89.7 inches (SOLD)}

^{“Great Flow”, 2022. Acrylic and blood on unstretched cotton, 155 x 210 cm | 61 x 83 inches}

^{“As above so below, 2022”, Acrylic and blood on burlap, 130x185 cm | 51x73 inches}

^{“Treasures of my territory”, 2022. Acrylic and blood on burlap, 130x185 cm | 51x73 inches (SOLD)}

^{“The eye of imagination”, 2022. Acrylic and blood on cotton, 160x152 cm | 63x61.3 inches}

^{“My Fair Lady Holding Her Umbrella”, 2022. Acrylic and blood on cotton, 160x152 cm | 63x61.3 inches}

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Feelings of an American Futile Dream

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