week 8: border arte

 this is a really interesting narrative writing where we are following the author around a museum and experiencing it as she is in a sense. she is seeing the way that the museum is catering the white visitors, and continuing the legacy of the white education system that teaches indigenous history as the extinct foundation of America. overlooking the lives of the existing indigenous communities, which continue to live their traditions and culture and be part of the ever-changing traditions and culture. still very much alive. she also talks about existing in the nepahlta this in between state, the constant changing identity depending on where you stand and who is looking, she describes the shift in identity from one side of the border to another. the carmon lomez garza painting camas para suenos is a really beautiful painting looking towards the moon. in it you can see a depiction of women making a bed and two children sitting atop the roof and watching the moon. i think the moon is a really interesting symbol in art, one that everyone can see if they are able to look outside and this dichotomy of the women inside the house and the children atop the roof gives this sense of existing in the in-between.