When thinking about some of Carmen Lomas Garza's artwork, I didn't imagine i'd finally get to know the artist behind the artwork I used to see growing up as a kid. As a child growing up in a working class family, my family didn't exactly have a lot of time to teach me how to properly speak and read in Spanish. However, if there's one thing I vividly remember that encouraged me to try to read in Spanish was this one book with a collection of Spanish stories and Garza's artwork was featured in "A Family Series". The art is so distinct that when I saw "La Feria en Reynosa", I couldn't help but feel nostalgic over the piece as it was one of my favorite pictures in these small stories! Now that I know this piece was based off a fair Garza went to with friends as a child, what I love about about this piece specifically is how it's able to depict the everyday life of a Mexican people in a warm manner. While it's technically a blend of Mexican and Mexican Americans enjoying the fair, the ambience is very much the same as everyone is enjoying themselves be it through talking, the children playing, and people eating together. While visually seeing this piece, I can't help but feel as if i'm hearing the fair itself and the music in the background. Such events are what bring people and families together and oddly enough, it's it's kind of what also brought my family together because they themselves were drawn to the art and considering the story had both English and Spanish, we helped one another read through the small passages and bonded over it!
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