Now Do You See Me? is a multimedia installation that draws upon Mexican-American iconography to explore the quiet strength and collective resilience of a community shaped by immigration, assimilation, and resistance. Through layered visual storytelling, the work invites viewers into the perspective of the “Other”, amplifying voices that have been historically marginalized, particularly those of the Latin community. 

The installation centers around an altar, an anchor of faith, memory, and belonging. By incorporating both historical and contemporary motifs, the work speaks to generational cycles of erasure and endurance. This visual language challenges dominant narratives and highlights the ongoing absence of representation within broader cultural and institutional frameworks. 

Now Do You See Me? exhibition is both a reclamation and a confrontation: a reclaiming of space, power, and identity, and a call for visibility. 

I am no longer who I was. The desert has taken this vessel and shed its sins. On the horizon I look anew afraid, alone, and with a broken hope. I look to the mountains for the fountain of youth. I run just like my ancestors ran; I ran so fast I forgot to look. But when I look, I see what I left behind: a love, a home, an identity, a belief. A part of my soul stays, but my vessel moves forward toward the new bright hope. In the desert, through another season, like the cactus, my roots dig deeper: I grow taller and become stronger through the drought, through the heat, through the vast wasteland of defeat. I am — I am a native to this tlalli.