Piñata Pull
Piñata Pull

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Dad's Tortilla Mask
Dad's Tortilla Mask

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Take Your Shirt Off
Take Your Shirt Off

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

You Look Like a Tuba Player
You Look Like a Tuba Player

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

World Culture Day
World Culture Day

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Damon's Fighting Miguel!
Damon's Fighting Miguel!

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Piñata Pull
Dad's Tortilla Mask
Take Your Shirt Off
You Look Like a Tuba Player
World Culture Day
G.I. Joe
Damon's Fighting Miguel!
Piñata Pull

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Dad's Tortilla Mask

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Take Your Shirt Off

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

You Look Like a Tuba Player

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

World Culture Day

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

G.I. Joe

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

Damon's Fighting Miguel!

Rites of Passage is a photographic series that restages childhood memories to explore identity, assimilation, and cultural loss. Using a documentary-style aesthetic grounded in realism, the images feature Latinx actors portraying versions of myself and my family in moments that are humorous, humiliating, or haunting. Drawn from lived experience and family photos, the scenes are filled with charged objects and gestures, with gaps in memory bridged through speculative imagination. Set in familiar suburban spaces, the work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on how memory—personal and collective—is constructed and reimagined across generations.

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