Mi Religión

My woven cotton blankets reference Catholic Saints and bible stories I heard growing up, with a critical view of women who were told not to own their sexuality and to not question theses religious saints. My self-portraits reproduce a modern day version of saints using my own image as all the saints. As a child, I was told to look up to saints that never looked like me, all of them were fair skinned with blue eyes none of them had brown skin with brown eyes. By reproducing them with brown skin, I am creating a more relatable representation that is more inclusive.