Family Reunion

The installation that I'm working on will be comprised of a table and will have platters of El Salvadoran food on it. I have been wanting to create food sculptures like those of Claes Oldenburg but at a smaller scale (I want the food sculptures to be the sizes the real food is). I'm still in the process of developing the idea, but i want each seat at the table to have an item or engraving on it that represents members from the Arriaga family; It's my interpretation of a family tree.

Plywood with house and acrylic paint.

My wood fried plantains next to my lunch.

Sixth Cyborg in Series Underway

My cyborg series started with mechanical limbs on models. I enjoyed working with the human body and making the mechanical parts appear flat and composed of basic shapes.















I wanted to try something different and decided to turn my cyborgs into amputees. I only did two of these paintings before I realized that I wanted to work more with the cyborg theme.

This is my current painting in my cyborg series. I was beginning to work with the male figure because I realized I use the female body the most. However, I defaulted to a female figure for this one because I wanted to try a darker skin tone on a familiar body shape; I didn't realize how generic the skin tones were appearing on all my paintings. I hope to paint two, dark skinned male cyborgs for the last two paintings in my series.