Dhamar Ramirez Gomez

What is cultural identity? As an immigrant, my identity has most of the time been guided by naivety and desire for belonging instead of my own culture and beliefs. When having to intermingle and maintain a sense of identity in a new reality, it can feel like one is stuck between two worlds, seeming like one is the correct answer. With the use of found images from magazines disrupted by heavy paint, I wish to create a feeling of displacement and unfamiliarity. With the images painted on top with multiple mediums, I desire to create a sense of chaos that represents cultures colliding. I hope this piece can pick up the pieces of my cultural experiences and assemble them into a defined story of my battle with identity.