Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas
24” x 24”
2020
My Self portrait was inspired from the Jumano-Apache tribes from the southwest Texas and Northern Mexico, the area known as La junta de los Rios, an isolated, triangular region at the congruence of the Rio Conchos and Rio Grande rivers, The area extends south towards Cuchillo Parado in Northern Chihuahua, Mexico and stretches northeast Redford, Texas and northwest to Ruidosa, Texas with Presidio, Texas and Ojinaga, Mexico at its center. The area was home to various Native American tribes like Jumano-Apache, Sadly now days, many descendants of the tribes of la junta Know nothing about their own heritage and the struggles of their ancestors.