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My interdisciplinary practice chronicles my family’s history in the U.S. as it transitions from immigrants to first-, second-, and third-generation Mexican Americans. I explore my family’s identity at the intersections of race, language, class, and labor to examine the effects of assimilation. My research begins with collecting oral histories and documenting unspoken assimilation patterns embedded in my family’s experience in the U.S. My photographic practice utilizes large format color portraits and still lifes to re-imagine intergenerational narratives of cultural transition.