I am a first-generation Mexican-American painter and ceramicist. My portrait and figurative paintings explore human embodiment contrary to the human condition in personifying the internal dialogues on race, culture, and sexuality. Ceramic components amplify thematic ideas of historical and cultural aspects of the Chicano/a/x life and aesthetics. Amalgamating earthenware material with figurative paintings represents my mixed cultural lineage and animates my psychological landscape. My consciousness incorporates the transformative concept of Nepantla as a space of “in-betweenness.” In sourcing inspiration from Mesoamerican culture and the Mexican identity, Rasquache describes an attitude that references the lower class and lends itself to the conceptual intermixing of concepts and the use of found objects.