Cardboard Currency Collection
These first two pieces below are inspired by the migrant workers who come to America to make money to send home to their families. Benito Juarez was the first president of Mexico and is on the $20 peso bill and Sor Juana Inés was a beloved activist and Nun in Mexico and is on the $200 peso bill. These are also the last additions to the Cardboard Currency Collection, which illustrate the transient nature of money as they are created on all recycled/used materials like cardboard newspapers and other items that would traditionally be be thrown away.
All of these works are performed on cardboard packaging with various media on top, spray paint, acrylic, watercolor from home made stencils. To create a beautiful image on a worthless surface is half of the artistic message. The other half addresses the constant craving we have towards the accumulation of these venerated pieces of paper. The replicate the likenesses of banknotes and in the process of production the images evolve whimsically creating new interpretations of a popular image. Unlike pop-art, the work reeks of handmade skill, the kind needed to produce a quality painting. Read more on the series here.
All of these works are performed on cardboard packaging with various media on top, spray paint, acrylic, watercolor from home made stencils. To create a beautiful image on a worthless surface is half of the artistic message. The other half addresses the constant craving we have towards the accumulation of these venerated pieces of paper. The replicate the likenesses of banknotes and in the process of production the images evolve whimsically creating new interpretations of a popular image. Unlike pop-art, the work reeks of handmade skill, the kind needed to produce a quality painting. Read more on the series here.
