No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
“I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.”
“Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.”