Allegory to resettlement

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Ernesto Carrero Painting Major  

 
Being a Latin-American immigrant, a US Army veteran and a visual artist gives me a unique outlook of life. I have experienced and witnessed unpleasantness and magnificence in people. Painting helps me maintain an optimistic assessment of life and human kind, something that I hope to transmit to my audience.

Allegory to resettlement (name of the work)

I want to create a painting/image using orange-peel extract as a medium because of its fluorescence under UV light (I might use other organic material that fluoresces). The medium will be directly applied by squeezing the peel on top of a dark board in order to create an image. I will paint Monarch butterfly. The idea behind the medium and the subject matter comes from the notion of migration. I see the monarch butterfly as a symbol of the connection between the US, Mexico and Canada. The Orange is in a way a migrant from Asia, where the plant is originally from. 












All of the medium, the creation process and the final work will be documented using my camera phone and a UV flashlight 395 nm.

Somehow my painting/image is an allegory to human immigration to America, a personal topic, as I am an immigrant myself. The UV light is a metaphor for feeling invisible.