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Artwork Description

Griselda Rosas lives and works in San Diego, California. Inspired by her life between the US/Mexico border, she intersects themes of cultural hybridity and identity. Rosas’ work critically examines the complexities of modern Mexican identity by studying and deconstructing symbols from Mesoamerican and colonial histories, and their contemporary effects. The imagery in this artwork references a manuscript entitled " El Lienzo de Tlaxcala," which consists of an enormous scene at the top followed by 87 more miniature scenes arranged in 13 horizontal rows. It depicts Spanish conquistadors arriving among the Tlaxcalans and their joint campaign of conquest to overthrow Mexico-Tenochtitlan. There's also a reference to a gothic religious painting from the same period as the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, which has no author about war and religion.