"The sculpture that we have here in Dolores Park is pretty chill, like, 'Oh, I did it. Everything is over,'"
"The Spanish government cut off this guy's head [and put it on display to discourage insurgents] like, 'You started this revolution, so we're going to kill you. But he's pretty calm with the hand on his chest, and the one that is in Mexico, he's breaking the chains, like, 'No, this is freedom. To be free, we need to be kind of aggressive, we need to scream.'"
"I'm talking about how different two countries or two places can be, but at the same time, it's not that different,"
INTERmedio presents oil paintings that pair Mexican and U.S. images—statues, cathedrals, and skyscrapers—overlaid to compare visual languages of freedom and identity. Skin for Bronze overlays a Guadalajara statue of Miguel Hidalgo, breaking chains, with a serene Dolores Park monument in San Francisco, hand on chest. The paired images emphasize contrasting expressions: a fierce, chain-breaking revolutionary versus a calm, post-revolutionary pose. Other works juxtapose Guadalajara and San Jose cathedrals and Torre Latinoamericana with the Transamerica Pyramid to trace architectural echoes across borders. The series interrogates how public monuments and landmarks encode national narratives of struggle, celebration, and belonging.
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