Article: Tattoo, Santa Nina de Mochis, California Fashions Slaves, and Our Lady (art).(digital prints by Alma Lopez)(Brief Article)

One the earliest digital prints I created was California Fashions Slaves. This digital print portrays my mother as a seamstress, and as a part of a working poor community racially stereotyped and vilified for allegedly draining the United States economy. Santa Nina de Mochis is dedicated to my maternal grandmother. The little girl in white was photographed during a family visit to my grandmother's graveside in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1997. Tattoo references the Virgin of Guadalupe. These are tattoos I've seen typically on men's backs. However, they are presented here on a woman's back, and the Virgin of Guadalupe is in an embrace with the mermaid of the popular ...

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