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Stanley Shoemaker

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about rich and multifaceted
background. Are there any
experiences that influence the way you
conceive and produce your works? And
in particular, how does your cultural
substratum inform the way you relate
yourself to art making and to the
aesthetic problem in general?

Hi, first of all, as you mentioned in your
intro, I was born and raised in Mexico,
my family is both mexican (from my
mothers side) and american, so, as a
child I was always traveling to the US
and back to mexico on a regular basis,
that, I think influenced me on the ways
I saw my own culture, I found it
captivating how different both
countries were, it created a great
impact on how I saw the world, so, both
cultures made a great effect on my
early years.
Mexico is full of color, it has a vivid
architecture, art and artisans here play
wi th contrast and are not that shy
about using primary colors in their
work, for example, Rufino Tamayo has
a very colorful palette and I suppose
my work subconsciously was influenced
by color and contrast, by saying this I
mean the psychology of color, using it
to emphasize something that I want the
viewer to see, or playing with it to show
the whole picture, I have a photograph
that I made called “future generation” I
placed the child facing backwards so
that every person who sees this can
form a relationship with the child. The
red lollipop emphasizes the innocence
of the subject. I made this image with
the intention of creating a conscience
for our own environment and to

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