“Indigenous Woman is not Invisible”, a series of murals in San Francisco Bay Area
at the Red Poppy Art House, Folsom @ 23rd Street.
at the Magic Theatre, Fort Mason, San Francisco.
at CAST (Community Arts Stabilization Trust)
at Good Vibrations, Lakeshore Street, Oakland.
The series of drawings and murals “Indigenous Woman is not Invisible” is inspired by a dream with my grandmothers and four Native women from the Americas: a Mochica woman from Peru (my heritage), a Nukak woman from the Colombian Amazon, an Ohlone woman from the Bay Area, and a Yuma-Pápago woman from the Arizona-Mexico border. In some of them, her body bears the phrases “My Body Not Yours,” with a fallopian tube symbol on her chest, representing the reproductive rights of indigenous women. She wears a Chakana, a four-thousand-year-old Andean symbol, on her right ear and “Say Her Name” on her left, connecting her to movements for justice for indigenous and black women.
Murals in Procida, Italy
Murals created following the rhythm and energy of life on the island of Procida, Italy, emphasizing medicinal plants and marine life. They are on opposite sides of the island, as seen on the map. At Il Casotto and Il Gazebo restaurants.
New mural in Oakland
“River to the Sky”
Mural at Turk @ Hyde streets in San Francisco. Commissioned by The Luggage Store Gallery and the Someland Foundation.. Latex-acrylic on wall, 2700 sq ft, 2021-22
This mural was created after several conversations with members of the Tenderloin community to pay homage to the Black Hawk jazz club where Miles Davies and Billie Holiday performed in the 1950s-60s on that same corner. It also includes a tribute to the BLM movement and to the California poppies, which are medicinal plants. The zigzag forming a river that goes to the sky is inspired by Ohlone designs, which is the territory where the mural is located and also a Mochica design, which is my ancestral culture. The idea of this mural was to create a space/sanctuary, where the residents of the Tenderloin could find a place of peace and relaxation, and after a few months it became that way, thanks to the support of Urban Alchemy and the City of San Francisco, is now a park, with mini gym facilities, small games for children, a place to take your dog for a walk and free coffee and tea.
“Natura-Musica” mural at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, California.
Dedicated to music in relation with nature, and how music inspired us to create, and how music inspires us to have a better life.
Thanks to PC Muñoz and Lindsey Crawford.
“Dear Angel Don’t try to Colonize me” mural at Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
As part of the Festival Manifest Differently
Tankns to Lindsey Crawford for helping me make this mural.
“Hank Wilson mural” at the Ambassador Hotel, San Francisco
Mural dedicated to the memory of Hank Wilson, a longtime San Francisco LGBT rights activist and long term AIDS activist and survivor. The Bay Area Reporter noted that “over more than 30 years, he played a pivotal role in San Francisco’s LGBT history”.
“Love story of hummingbirds and ancestors”
Artist in Residence at Google new campus at Mountain View
Mural commissioned by Google to visually describe a personal story related to hummingbirds and my family in the north of Peru. It is located in the new Google facility in Mountain View.
Ancestral Hummingbird at the Mission District in San Francisco, California
Corner of 24th Street @ Osage Street, half block of Mission Street. Thanks to Cafe La Boheme.
Dragon & BLM
Mural at the corner of Grant @ Vinton, San Francisco, Chinatown. Commissioned by Project Artivism, Restore 49. Metal paint on metal fence, 168 sq ft, 2020.
The mural represents the power of the Dragon, an iconic figure, magical and full of transformation power of Chinese culture, which appears in the middle of the initials BLM. It was created at the beginning of the pandemic, when very little was happening in the city, and everything was closed. Project Activism followed all the health protocols to be able to do so and thus begin to respond to the needs of social justice, especially after the murder of George Floyd.
New Murals in Mexico & Peru
Ancestral hummingbird at Bundo Cafebreria, Xalapa, Mexico and at Kambalache Cultural House, Lima, Peru
Mural at “Huerto de Osos Perezosos”, Xalapa, Mexico. Link of this amazing retreat place
Private mural in Lima, Peru
