Julian Barbarino 🇵🇷

The artist decided they didn't want the general public know details about her family andkeep that part of her life more private. Not a big deal, but I do wish I knew this before making a nice article about the artist and their family

Brushing up on interviews to make new articles

Need some of these on the go. We're back at it...

Successful;

Here, I'm grabbing landscapes from the Unites States and painting on top of them images that remind me of Puerto Rico. Placing Puerto Rican identity directly onto other landscapes. In the midst of the many things that define the island, its architecture seems to be something we all hold close to us.

While on the island, I used to walk everywhere, I enjoyed it a lot, and now, being in a place where walking down the neighborhood isn't an occurrence, even seeing a person walking is a rarity, there are no strolls down the neighborhood. All homes look exactly the same. Nothing sets them apart, no colors, no shapes, nothing.

Here, by placing images of the island of the landscape and intervening them with paint and pen, I reflect on things I do miss, further than just the place. More of how adaptability doesn't change wanting to be somewherebut there is a yearning about being somewhere you no longer are. To be close to people, you no longer are close to. Most of all, to be someone you no longer are, whether it's finding or even losing who you were.

I have some damged film in stock so I wanted to use some paint pens on them and experiment with combining paint and photography. This one was a bust, the paint is to thin to adhere to the smooth film surface. I'll try actual paint from the tube later

Intense couple of days... very little sleep