“Come to a complete STOP,” above, is a piece rallying against violence, bullying and deportation featured at Pilsen’s National Museum of Mexican Art.
Looking from a distance, the painting is a depiction of an enormous eye. But as one comes closer, the image inside the eye comes into focus. A blood-red chalk outline is sprawled in the middle of the empty city street. The dark colors reinforce the bleakness of the scene.
For the young artist, the image is not an abstraction, not a reflection of the news headlines — it is a reality of day-to-day life.
