Join Museo on Slow Art Day, April 9, 2016 to view the new series titled Hablamos Juntos. Click the image below to view the exhibit , then return here to read what other slow lookers have written and add your comments.
Note: (if you are on a mobile device, you may be prompted to download the exhibbit app)
Click the images to view full size. Add your responses below in the comments
Artist: Juan Fuentes
“My muscles ache, too. His labor goes unnoticed by many, but not by me.”
—Yesenia Matias Chavez, UCSC Student and Writing Project Assistant
Artist: Ivan Rubio
“The picture I picked out reminds me of my Uncle Georgie. My Uncle Georgie is a buff, ‘tall ass foo’ and he’s all tatted up from his neck down to his legs.”
—Chris Rosete, Young Writers Program
Artist: Judithe Hernandez
“Maria’s childhood was difficult. She grew up in a neighborhood where guns were like fireworks at night. Houses were falling apart, with broken windows. It was a very lonely neighborhood.”
—Alexis Rangel, Young Writers Program
Artist: Xavier Jiramontes
“When my family immigrated to Watsonville from Michoacán, Mexico, they bought a house in a white neighborhood. [Their neighbors] would drive by in their cars and yell out all kinds of racist names like ‘beaner,’ ‘wetback,’ ‘greasers,’ and ‘aliens.’ But despite all that my family stayed on the block.”
—Anthony Garcia, Young Writers Program
Artist: Carmen Leon
“The title of this artwork is called “The Portal.” This symbolizes the transformation I made from being a kid to the high school teenager I am today.”
—L.R., Young Writers Program
Artist: Jesus Barraza & Melanie Cervantes
“I’m Mexican and I’m proud of that—I wouldn’t change it even if I could.”
—Jose Antonio Ortiz, Young Writers Program
Artist: Hector Mendoza
“The barb wires in this picture made me think of a lot of difficult times I’m still going through.”
—Elizabeth Albor, Young Writers Program