GROCERY LIST FOR
THE PARTY, 1999


  Grocery List for the Party, 1999, is the smallest piece to date. It is the most true to scale as it is drawn directly from my father’s journal entries from 1999, when he was 26, the same age I am now, nearly a decade after his migration to the United States. The list is simple, as he made an estimate of what my 2nd birthday party would cost him and my mother. What I found of interest in this list is the unintentional representation of integration, seamlessly merging both English and Spanish languages. The text lays over the image of the party moments after the pinata broke and the children gathered to collect the candies.