A parallel between family history's also occurs as I connect with the women who once lived and inhabited the space through my own experience of living here. A once private space houses a semi-public events venue, which also houses a private living space. Through these artistic investigations, the idea of spaces housed within one another has began to emerge. I incorporate the scheduled weddings and quincieaneras as part of the work and document my presence at these events, often being an awkward presence at someone's party. I have also began to program events that will happen within the house that take the form of artistic actions housed within my project.
I have created wall drawings on canvas and three groupings of photographic works.
Due to my residence, a room and a bathroom were prepared for me to live in. Most of the private rooms are being used as my cousins' law offices. There are constant weddings and quinceaneras held on site and the house has a working staff. Mansion Magnolia is currently used as an event space and business and not a residence. Some of the original furniture and paintings are still here. On the walls are portraits of them, their brothers, their father and their mother. My grandmother's aunts known as “Las Tias” were the last inhabitants to live in the house until now. Mansion Magnolia is a neoclassical style residence built in the late 1890's. All occurrences within the space would be incorporated into the work. I would live in Mansion Magnolia, viewing the house as a studio. I began the project by giving myself an extended time frame of three months. Registraré toda actividad durante mi estancia y trabajo que se incorporará a la obra final de Arte. Mi objetivo es el habitarla y al mismo tiempo será parte de mi taller y estudio. Decidí iniciar este proyecto dándome un periodo de tres meses. Para comprender mejor este diálogo que sentí por muchos años, quise experimentar, sentir de una manera viva y real llevando a cabo una residencia artística directamente en Mansión Magnolias. Esta conversación entre estos dos espacios se centran en su funcionamiento de casas específicas. La coexistencia entre las ciudades de Guadalajara y Los Angeles a sido un diálogo constante a través de mis memorias y la idea de hogar. Lugares creados e idealizados por èl que permanecieron presentes extendiéndose durante mi infancia, esta sensación reflejó una permanencia temporal en la ciudad de Los Angeles. Uno de ellos era un terreno vacante donde se construiría la casa familiar y el otro era Mansión Magnolia, donde se imaginó así mismo trabajando. Mi padre mentalmente habitaba en dos sitios en Guadalajara, mientras vivía físicamente en Los Angeles. Como también la observación de interacción inmigrante entre los sitios de Guadalajara, México y Los Angeles, California como concepción de hogar. Mi proceso artístico me ha llevado a una investigación muy personal, utilizando la acción de habitar como una forma de entender la experiencia inmigrante propia y de mis padres. It is this need to know these other sites in Mexico that has lead me to take residence here in order to inhabit Mansion Magnolia in a very real and very tactile way. This conversation between sites focuses on specific houses and their roles. Guadalajara and Los Angeles as cities have been in constant dialogue through memory and the idea of home.
I have felt the coexistence of these spaces throughout my life. These two sites created for him, and by extension for me during my childhood, an ever-present feeling that Los Angeles was a temporary situation. One was an empty lot where he would eventually build our family's house, and the other was Mansion Magnolia where he envisioned himself working. My father mentally inhabited two sites in Guadalajara while living in Los Angeles. My artistic process has lead me to a very personal investigation, using the process of inhabiting as a way to understand my parents' immigrant experience and my own immigrant experience as it relates to the interaction between sites in Guadalajara and Los Angeles and the notion of home.
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