Marion C. Martinez incorporates both the past and the future in her art. Influenced by the "folk' art, they create art that tells the narratives of New Mexico. Martinez criticizes technology and science due to its racist, classist, and sexist stereotypes that exclude Hispanics in these fields. Chicanafutarism, as defined by Martinez, is "Chicano cultural production that attends to cultural translations resulting from new and everyday technologies that excavate, creates, and alters narratives of identity, technology, and the future; that interrogates the promises of science and technology, and that redefines humanism and the human." Martinez implements this into her art to preserve the Santo Tradition while moving forward and introducing them to the 21st century with 20th-century technology.
A common interpretation in Chicana Art is the different depiction of La Virgen de Guadalupe. Martinez's created this art with inspiration from the traditional retablo style of Santo art. The Oratoria a la Virgencita is a box with a religious figure inside. It is decorated with embossed copper roses and circuitry in the image.
It's such an important thing to bring together past and present, this piece showcases that honoring of cultural and spiritual iconography and simultaneously uses nontraditiona; mediums of displaying it with the geometric shapes and copper paying homage.
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