"Like Water for Chocolate"
"Like Water for Chocolate" emerged as I moved through a process of questioning; of looking closely at where I felt quiet but persistent disconnects from culture and ancestral lineage. In creating this work, I found myself confronting the gaps: the silences, the untold histories, and the ways in which those absences shape how we understand ourselves and each other. There is a tension embedded here; a reflection on the human condition as something that has, at times, been reframed through a lens of commodification. Identity, memory, even heritage can be consumed, packaged, and interpreted as value rather than lived experience. This work sits in that discomfort... I believe creating this piece has asked what it means to be seen not as a being, but as something to be assessed, absorbed, or exchanged.
"Like Water for Chocolate" emerged as I moved through a process of questioning; of looking closely at where I felt quiet but persistent disconnects from culture and ancestral lineage. In creating this work, I found myself confronting the gaps: the silences, the untold histories, and the ways in which those absences shape how we understand ourselves and each other. There is a tension embedded here; a reflection on the human condition as something that has, at times, been reframed through a lens of commodification. Identity, memory, even heritage can be consumed, packaged, and interpreted as value rather than lived experience. This work sits in that discomfort... I believe creating this piece has asked what it means to be seen not as a being, but as something to be assessed, absorbed, or exchanged.
About The Artist
Artist Alias
Lorenzo Swinton
"Which of the three cities (Nashville, New York, Chicago) do you identify with the most and why?"
City choice airtable
Artist Bio
As we all journey, experience and question the meaning of life and purpose; I feel that it is what we give, what we present and what we leave for others that determine the shape of our physical, mental, emotional and social existence. I ask my work to speak to the audience rather than the physical being of myself, which at times can be flawed or misunderstood.