This is the world I imagine. This is the world I want to create: this world without borders where the Los Angeles Metro bus has a stop in Oaxaca, where we can all move freely across landscapes, and where we have autonomy over our own mobility.
This piece, like a lot of my drawings, is a reference to the Oaxacan immigrant culture in Los Angeles that raised me. It depicts an orange Los Angeles Metro bus arriving to Oaxaca City, where in the background we can see my version of the iconic Santo Domingo church, an icon of Oaxacan history and geography. The bus’s arrival is celebrated with a calenda, a type of parade that invites people to a festivity; there are marmotas and women carrying canastos ready to greet the bus’s passengers. This celebration marks a reunion between immigrants arriving from Los Angeles and their pueblos that have not...
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