Cherry Cherry Chica #130" x 15" x 1. 5" Acrylic on Canvas In a Plateaued Orchard I Was in My Teens A Man Gave Me a Job His Years Were Not Green I Met a Mexican Girl Her Skin and Form Were Fine Told Me She was Migrant Would be Leaving in Time Five Years My Elder Couldnt Give Her My Heart I Knew She Would be Leaving Tearing My World Apart She Gave Me a Golden Comb To Remember Her Grace It Made the Old Man Angry I Could See it on His Face His Green Eyes Were Raging Desires of

They Sprouted

staring at the floor

the backdrop of this monochromatic work of Orange + Black and White was a bare paneled wall

and Charity

Squid Like Arms Suddenly

When converting faces (or the human figure) into geometry

suave and upper crust

leaving a vast planal shape in between to place my lineal wallpaper over

Got the Best of Him

To reinterpret Grant Wood’s 1930 painting

During the process I wasn’t so sure that the size was going to work

two-dimensional skyline of the city to juxtapose the three-dimensional affect of the streetlamps and sidewalk in perspective – a street performer’s stage