ARTIST STATEMENT

ARTIST STATEMENT

Natural features like rivers or mountain ranges sometimes define the boundaries between people. Other times, these borders exist only as lines drawn by human hands. My artwork responds to the ever-changing landscape of borderlands spaces where cultures, languages, and identities intersect, merge, and conflict.

Through various media and visual language, I layer images and materials to represent cultural appropriation and the crossing of cultural, economic, social, psychological, and historical boundaries. My work compels these elements to interact, coexist, and synthesize. In bridging differences and similarities, I aim to create meaning and gain a deeper understanding of my place within this complex and dynamic context.

-Jesús De La Rosa

Self-Portrait
Mixed Media
on Wood Panel
8"x10", 2022