Sand One is an artist who is known for her paintings of dolls with extra long eye lashes. She grew up in East Los Angeles, California and has been featured in TV networks featuring her work such. She has had the opportunity to paint not only all over California, but also in Mexico, Guatmela, and Puerto Rico. She works mainly with watercolor and spray paint. She grew up with single mother and started painting in her garage at the age of 8. Her inspiration was seeing her mom put on makeup and loads of mascara, which she highlighted brilliantly in her art. Although she was criticized for not going to college, she emphasized that she created this art for the people that the chicano community usually turn their backs on. People like single mothers, uneducated folks, and strippers. One of her paintings named Cake displayed a doll, representative of all the women that have daddy issues. In the image she held a teddy bear, and One likes to think that boys are toys, so she draws them as teddy bears, instead of the actual men. Each teddy bear has its own personality, an example being the drug dealer teddy bear. Her murals are representative of One getting input from her community into the mural, where she can paint the mural according to what people would recommend her. Like this, her artwork really are building pieces of their own. In another painting she depicts a female solider named Sanchez that symbolizes female empowerment, where she still looks cute, but is able to show, from her stance, confidence. This one was one of my favorite pieces because it shows the duality a chicano woman, or really and woman, can have. Through her work she is able to fight stereotypes that women face on a daily basis. This painting was also very special in the way that it reminded me of the lost solider Vanessa Guillen.
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