Hi, everyone! I'm Camille and prefer the pronouns she/her/hers. I am a freshman marine biology major and am planning on eventually adding a second major in art history. I love both subjects and could not decide between the two, so my plan is to follow through with both and find intersections between them. At the moment, I am not involved in research, but I have been looking forward to finding field work opportunities for marine biology and possibly museum internships for the summer.
For this week’s reading, I really thought “There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Embodied Aesthetics in Chicana Art” was interesting, and the inclusion of different types of place based aesthetics expanded the notion of a place. More specifically, the idea that the Aztlán aesthetic came from a conjured place as a result of displaced origins, colonization, and reclamation. De Alba equates their “place” to the construct of La Virgen, a womb they long to return to, untouched by the rape of westward expansion. This homeland exists in the dichotomy of both a “vanquished” place compared to La Malinche and an untouched place like La Virgen; a place of both loss and potential, the Aztlán is again created within the intercies of a sense of displacement and reclamation. The inclusion of Homi K Bhabha’s sense of identity resulting from the intercies of origin, race, nationality, gender, etc. helped me make sense of this phenomena created by clashes of typical markers of identity within one body. I also loved the work included by Delilah Montoya and the explanation behind it.
Coming from San Diego, I have long been surrounded by Chicano and Chicana art which has significantly contributed to my love of art history and am excited to look in depth at the artists and history involved.
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