moongirlstudio

American Girl - Oil paint on canvas 24"x36"

Everything in this piece means EVERYTHING. The gold jewelry, the skulls, the bleeding heart, the Mexican pin on her dress, the leaves, the white feathers at the end of her arrows, the bandana over her eyes. I grew up with always wearing gold jewelry. The necklaces you get at birth, the 7 gold bracelets you get when you’re 1 year old and you keep forever, the hoops you get when you’re a teenager, the rings you get when you turn 15. She’s a Mexican girl. Let them hear you. Don't let them silence you.

She’s a Mexican-American girl.