The New Inspirational Movement

My work is inspired by the psychological impact that mass media- and mass production have on our society. I am especially interested to re-make those mass produced objects that seem no longer relevant to our society and transform them into new realities, changing our memories and our perceptions of them.
Because my work is interactive it gives the viewer an active role on the decision whether to be removed or not from a reality to which they have become accustomed. My work engages them to reflect on our relationship with material and culture.

For the Chicana/0 Biennial I am showing Osiloscopiando from the Recycling Junk series.

I hope you will enjoy it!

Daniela

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For the last month or so I have been working on my upcoming installation and exhibition entitled “IN TIE ONE WE TRUST” to be held at the bluedahlia’s Studio gallery, 3435 Cesar Chavez, #315 in San Francisco, and opening on August 19th, 2007, 4 - 9 pm. The exhibition is on view through August 31st by appointment only. For more information call 415.828.4418. Here are photos documenting my progress as i create the installation almost all from scratch and mostly using recycled materials. Thanks to the Sanitary Fill/Norcal Company, the SF Garbage Dump for the Spectator newspaper rack, the fake flowers, the Christmas lights, some of the wood, and most of the spray paint i used. A special thank you also goes out to Paula Goodman and Express Service Signs in Cincinatti for all of her wonderful recycled sticker vinyl scraps. And of course, I want to thank the anonymous donor who made all the copies of the “TIE warning” stickers from the original TIE made so long ago. Thank you. You know who you are, my other hero. A final thanks goes to Julie Blankenship of bluedahlia’s Studio gallery for hosting my show. I love you, Julie!

For months, the parking lot outside my apartment remained empty… preceding the new p.c. raza mural (also now in progress since these photos have been taken) and revamped parking lot, so i decided to make use of the space and spend some time making art outside in the nice weather and the urban landscape.

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Paula Goodman (my good friend) turned me on to this amazing phenomenon, BUTTERSCOTCH. She has to be the next big thing if she doesn’t freak out from the fame or take the wrong dark road… she’s amazing… inspiring… and so young! Anyhow, Paula and I, and apparently a lot of others love her. Isis and I were talking and she hadn’t heard about her yet so i thought i should share with NIM. This is my first time using You Tube clips also, but i cheated and used the ones Paula sent me as myspace comments (gotta start somewhere). hope you all enjoy!

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Weather it’s a brown beret, trenzas with hoop earings, a guayavera, or a Mexican “peasant blouse”, a tool that has been used for generations to express who we are has been our dress. The traditions of our ancestors historically dictated our dress, reconnecting us with our community, creation myths, or the land we stood upon. This expression emerging through our clothing’s form, pattern, color, and material would constantly reinforce, the connection to the culture that we represent.

This has changed in our modern world, especially for Chicanos in the United States. The clothing many of us wear now reflects the convergent cultures we collectively embody, or sometimes a glaring lack of specificity, often making the discernment our of origins difficult. As globalization further permeates many cultures around the world, it becomes an act of resistance to retain one’s distinct cultural heritage. Chicano art today takes on widely different forms as the influences of many different cultures seep into our collective consciousnesses, and our ancestral roots fight for our attention.

This recent painting, ¿De Donde Eres?, is part of a series of paintings that seek to examine this shift in identity expression, as well as the bold act of expressing one’s cultural heritage. Depicting two women of uncertain national origin, the Japanese style kimono is made of traditional Guatemalan textile designs. The juxtaposition of their seemingly incongruous fashion bring into light the power of distinct cultural icons, and the fusion or confusion that can emerge from a globalized “melting-pot”. Their environment reflects their mixed origins and the affects of a seemingly shrinking world.

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Reconstructed Landscapes

In a near future when human civilization is destroy by a natural disaster or by our self’s. Nature will proclaim the lost land destroy by humanity and will reconstruct their landscapes in the concrete cities, destroying what was a civilization of chaos and destruction, giving back the balance of the species. The only essence of us will be the artifacts and ruins that will tell who we were and how we lived.

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I find myself turning more and more to comics as a way to relieve the pressures and expectations of doing my other artwork. They’ve turned into a great way to explore my id and work out plenty of thoughts and questions. Lately, the comics I’ve been doing have been means to poke a little fun at the conventions of Chicano culture and art. I figure a little satire will keep us honest.

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Hello and thank you for visiting my post.

The work that I will be showing at the Chicano Biennial is a short animation titled “Regalo Salvaje” and it is an experimental 3D animation about the experience of an individual metamorphosis as applied to social consciousness. Text and images are used in this piece to directly address the idea of individual transformation brought on by societal realities of cultural assimilation. The animation in this work references a more symbolic manifestation of that reality when combined with the language of motion and sound. The experience of individual survival becomes a heightened expression that is achieved through the arrangement of word, motion, sound, and image.

To see more of my work please visit my website at www.quintingonzalez.com. Or click here to see an excerpt of Regalo Salvage.

Regalo Salvaje (video stills)

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