Alva Pulido - Alva's Personal Backyard Findings
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Alva Pulido is a first generation Chicana/Mexican American college student born in Hanford, CA. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. from Michocacán, Mexico and worked in the fields as farmworkers. She enjoys working and experimenting with different mixed media but recently has been working with watercolor, chalk pastels, and ink. Her work can be influenced and inspired by sociocultural factors, the environment, emotions, everyday objects or subjects. She hopes to expand her learning, creativity, and knowledge in the interdisciplinary arts scope. She received her Associate in Arts in Studio Art for Transfer and four Associate in Arts degrees from Sacramento City College in Spring 2019. She is currently an undergraduate student at the University of California Berkeley finishing her studies in Art Practice. She lives and has lived all her life in Woodland, CA. Her pronouns are she/her/hers
Artist Statement:
.This project, which was a hybrid of zine/paper book of eleven images, was based on a collection of insects, birds, and flowers, trees, that I encountered in my neighborhood and the County where I reside as well. It is intended to inform the viewer who holds and participates what crawls, breathes, or flys over their house or in their backyard. Instead of the zine/book opening like a book normally does, I decided to tape together the painted images and let it open accordionly. As the project began to unfold I began to notice the constant touching and folding. I knew that this project was not coming out perfect or clean, considering that I had no stable area to work on. I wasn't expecting the project to come clean or in any way perfect nevertheless. I wanted the zine/book to have a personal look to it. Lastly, The tape was important because even if there was another possibility to create something cleaner and more formal, that was not my aim. Other materials I used were colored paper, glue, ink, pen, watercolor, and gouache. I also want to mention that certain paintings were dedicated to individuals and myself. It was hard at times moving forward with ideas and the work. But I loved the end results because it became more personal to me...like a journal.
