Watsonville Brillante: Mayan Warrior

Mayan Warrior, is a woodcut.  The main image represents a young man picking strawberries.  That young man could have been me, but also many others.  I wanted to represent the present and the past, so I added the Mayan deity on top and it holds onto a farmworker eagle and their struggle for workers rights led by Cesar Chavez.  On the top left corner is the symbol for the four directions from New Mexico, where I was born. This represents our cultural past in Mexico and present lives in the U.S. Separating the two figures is a barbed wire, representing the border between Mexico and the U. S.  My own family was divided with relatives on both sides of the border.