Artist Statement
The genre™ is part memoir, part cultural analysis, and part fantasy. Who says you can’t mix feminine realness with some shade, tea, and a little brujeria in a critique of the ways concepts of God, gender, race, and heroes have failed us — all in the pursuit of divining the power we’ve always held to heal ourselves?*
Ofrendas/
Altars
2024
Staged assemblage, photographed with text/typography overlaid using design software. Connecting a visual dialogue between materiality, memory, and transformation.
Objects—both found and fabricated—are carefully arranged, each carrying its own weight of history, function, or cultural significance.
Every installation begins with a writing process, where themes woven through narrative essays take shape as elements of the altar. Sample essays are provided here, with the ultimate goal of publishing this collective work as a unified project.
In traditional practice, the Ofrenda or Altar is a living entity—like a garden—tended with care and intention. It serves as a portal to welcome ancestral spirits, forge covenants, offer gratitude, and pay tribute to our creator. My Ofrendas/Altars are built from stories and images that document my journey from girlhood to liberated womanhood and into the complexities of marriage—where yet another fight for spiritual liberation requires going back to the beginning.
Through each Ofrenda, I trace a feminist, spiritual, and decolonial path toward self-love, healing, and freedom, all while navigating the kaleidoscopic layers of my cultural identity.
Ella Habla Mucho
She Talks Too Much
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Ella Habla Mucho/She Talks Too Much captures my experience growing up in the 80s and 90s as a mixed-race Chicana while living in one of Los Angeles’s most conservative suburbs. Documenting my childhood and my family’s histories is a pilgrimage interwoven with excavating the origins of internalized racism and generational trauma. In this journey, I find a thread that connects Barbie to Malinché to Guadalupe, unraveling a story that eventually reaches all the way back to the Pre-Columbian Tonantzin (holy mothers) of the Mexica people.
No Tienes Vergüenza
She Has No Shame
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No Tienes Vergüenza/She Has No Shame documents acts of liberatory pleasure while de-capitalizing, de-Catholicizing, and decolonizing my mind, body, and spirit—an endeavor filled with humor, frustration, failure, and triumph. Along the way, I discard the misplaced shame imposed by institutions, expectations, and inherited narratives, trading it for radical self-love and autonomy. I learn that perfection is a myth, that as long as there is breath in our lungs, we remain a work in progress—and that the only true finish line is death.
Don’t Try This At Home
Cuidate Mi Amor
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Don’t Try This At Home/Cuidate Mi Amor
is a marriage memoir that reveals the brutal collision between marital expectations and reality. Traditional marriage remains an institution full of misogyny, outdated gender roles, selective memory, and sometimes uninvited guests. In this work I discovered that the path to a liberated marriage can only be forged through mutual effort, deep collaboration, and generous applications of grace.
Con Muchas Gracias
My husband Jay Doronio
Thank you for bravely supporting my work, for your willingness to share our marriage story, and for your continued commitment to care for yourself and our family.
My niños Sofia & Max
You are the best work of Art I will ever make. I thank God everyday for blessing me with the gift of being your mama. I love you more than all the peanut butter on the planet.
Silas Munro polymode.studio
For lending me your brilliance, and helping me craft my artist statement! Thank you for inviting me to the party, and serving the most incredible hugs.
Yoon Soo Lee yoonsoo.com
Thank you your mentorship, and providing space for the kind of brave and vulnerable conversations that led me to joyful storytelling solutions. For teaching me about GOOP.
My baby brother Nico Losorelli
Thank you for holding my hand through the some of the scariest shit life has to offer, and empowering me with words and wisdom that saved my life.
My little big brother Chris Losorelli
Thank you for modeling a pathway toward an even deeper level of personal empowerment, peace, and grace toward the self, and having impeccable taste in film and TV.