DREAM CASTLE IXCOTEL (2023) OIL ON PANEL, 8” x 6”

Something said to me often during 2022, when I was in Oaxaca, in a little neighborhood named Santa Maria Ixcotel, was that there must be limits. I'm still not sure what it means, exactly, but I know what it means lower in my gut in the place where there are not words. After three months, when another lockdown was imposed and there were fewer people on the streets of the neighborhood, I was allowed out under supervision for a morning run. I passed this house and imagined a different life I could live inside of its tall tower and sprawling third floor dance studio overlooking the gorge and beyond that, the park. Now that I have moved past those days (thankful for the state department, namely Rebecca) I am starting to feel again, the limitlessness of my own life through my art.

GRID:100 Mini Paintings was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the City of Dubuque.

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2024 GRID: 100 MINI PAINTINGS, ANDONIA GIANNAKOUROS STUDIO, DUBUQUE, IA