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Immigrants are citizens of the world. In this sense, our land is everywhere and nowhere. We strive to figure out our heritage, and although we could point out our direct lineage, what shapes us is much more complex than that. I believe that our quest to link back to our past, however small, offers us a hand on our family tree. This family tree not being the conventional one, as our family themselves detached from their own to form a new and hybrid one. What we inherent are bit and pieces of our culture. In my case, the mixture of two different cultures: Dominican and North American. The first, buried by western education. As artist in the US, we are thought to love and come to understand, very profoundly, western civilization. As I look back into it, its product does not reflect me or anyone that feels like me; but more frightful is that, I am neither reflection of my “other heritage”. This paradox, makes it imperative for me to trace all aspects of my cultural, physiological and sociological formation. How do I belong to America when I belong no place else? is one of the questions that birthed my American Flag series. I was born and raised Dominican yet have come alive, as an artist, as a woman, in America. Come alive in a culture, and English tongue, that is as alien and ambivalent to me as it is welcoming and inspiring. My work is a narrative of the journey of discovering the American in me. |
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Master in Fine Arts Digital Arts |
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Associate Professor of Art |
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State Univeristy of New York at New Paltz |
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