On February 15th, 2002 I love my Hermana/My Sister. Every year I take time to remember a Sister, A Friend I lived with for 8 months, up until her untimely departure into the after life; death. My Sister, P’ Oui passed away 13 years ago while I was living in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She was only 24 years old. P’Oui helped be adjust into Thai lifestyle. It was hard for me, so many rules, too many showers, and they handed me a razor a week into living with them, i am hairy and do not care for shaving. P’Oui is in this foto that I glued into one of 10 sketchbooks I made while living in northern Thailand for one year. She is in the blue shirt. Looks like we were lounging around watching Thai soap operas. Forever in my heart, Salud to those who have lost their sisters. 2-15-02 Thank The Creator for My Hands, My Hand allow me to create art. Without Arte, I would have never survived so many struggles in my life. #makemasarte
Hermana.
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Celeste Contreras is a Xicana - Indigenous artist who works in mixed mediums to share stories of ceremony, culture and tradition. Her work includes illustrations, print, book arts and animation. Her research includes storytelling through images and objects, exploring the condition of the book and book form and recalling the palimpsests of intergenerational trauma from migration and genocide of ancestors to relearning and decolonizing through ceremony. Currently enrolled as an MFA student at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, focused in Print and Narrative Form and holds a BFA from Alverno College. Contreras was the 2019 Gathering Art, Stories and Place Artist-in-Resident with the Milwaukee Public Library where she published a 200 edition box set of artists’ books, Artist in the Library, that will be distributed throughout libraries in Milwaukee and libraries around the country. Contreras is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she lives with her husband and cats in the Riverwest neighborhood. www.celestecontreras.com Email: celestazuchitl@gmail.com Instagram: celestazuchitl.arte View all posts by celeste contreras