It is my human necessity. Art is the language I use to speak my truth in a concrete visual way. The five C’s guide me in my work, Color, Culture, Calligraphy, vida Cotidiana, and Creatividad. I paint and use mixed media to show the beauty and struggle of people of color.
My subjects are women and family as well as Mexican iconography. Much of my art is an expression of my dream life, which I record and illustrate in small journals on a daily basis. Because I’m a poet-artist I integrate text into my art. My mother, Isabel Luna Aparicio, a Mexican storyteller and my father, Elias Rodriguez Aparicio, a spiritual and intellectual Mexican Indian influence my creative thinking.
I’ve lived in Pasadena for over forty years and was born and raised in nearby East Los Angeles. I’m a painter, an author and a performance artist. It’s natural for me to paint and write about ‘la vida cotidiana’, the things of everyday life. I’ve volunteered as an art therapist for recovering stroke patients at The Huntington Memorial Hospital. Currently I volunteer for BLUE MILAGRO as an artist teacher volunteer in the Pasadena Public Schools in the area of art and family histories. My self illustrated memoir, MI AMOR, Stories of Family Love was published in 1915.
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