is W A Y shape

A time in a womyn’s life came where she had to decide where to take her persona to become. It so happened in the spring of 2008, when Vatalina took over Catalina’s entire life for a week, including Cata’s birthday to give herself birth into human form. Though her presence was momentary, her memory lasts and will be incarnated as a guerrilla performance installation artist this fall.

Many wonder what will become of Vatalina, will her Vato ever make it out of jail? She said she loves his letters. Especially the one with the toothbrush tattoo of her name on his chest. That one is beautiful!! Her cholo wrote her “i tried writing on my heart, but the ink kept smudging.” So apparently he closed his chest back up, glued the skin back together and got to work. It’s notable he strayed from the gothic lettering and totally bubble lettered that mess making it look just so tyt!!!!

Vatalina said that the conjugal visit she fought didn’t get her pregnant, so she’s getting bored now and started to try doing stuff. She also says that she saw the judge’s pee-pee but it just wasn’t worth it to try and get another visit if it now meant having to bone two dudes.

I say OHMY!

So anyways. I guess that is a Chola lifestyle. This is the proudest vata I have encountered so far. GADDAMN.

Vatalina is coming back, she is feeling NYC this fall, and she said to me that she hopes the weather will be nice during her stay.

HORARIO:

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Interesting to note that in the situation changed from an academic environment to a busy-street environment the amount of race and gender harassment increased greatly………………….. I am shocked by a lot of the dangerous behaviour to which I unknowingly exposed myself……….. Fashion district as previously experienced in other cities of the world – Santiago, Lima, LA, Mumbai – has never before felt so dangerous and scary. The storeattendants were all cordial but outside was demoniacal to a deep degree?? S T R A N G E.
It was very similar to the rave experience, where the only way to get away from people filling ears up with drugtalk is to go buy a thing.
VATALINA 2008 was set on a university campus entirely, which gave way to much friendlier and positive interaction with the environment.

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• LOVER APPLICATION:
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study day againnnnnn

CHILLIN AT THE QUAD listenin to my playlissssst n kickin it w my cholas

happy birthday Vatalina!!!!!!!!!!!

(muchas gracias Salvador Placencia)

VATALINA’S BIRTHDAY PRESENT!
the playlist one the boombox playinnnnnn

MIL GRACIAS YALIE FOR BEING THE SHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i looove my mijaaaa!!!!!!!!

Let me Ride – Dr Dre
You Know How We Do It – Ice Cube
Summertime in the LBC – The Dove Shack
Back in the day – Ammad
This DJ – Warren G
California Love rmx – 2Pac feat Dr Dre
To Live and Die in LA – 2Pac
Regulate – Warren G
Many Clouds G Smoke – Total Devastation

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Ya so second day came and Vatalina wakes the fuck upp upppppppppp

and her Vata Bubbles says “MERAAAA METALCORE FOTOCHOOT”

so u thought my name woud be la sad eyes no??

wakin up w perfect hair ain’t this easy

me n my cholo got the same hair no??

ya dis cholo even look like me

M 2 da P = MalPe reppin the Manipal beeeeach!!!

don’t fuck w a chola who knows how to use SANDPAPER cuz ull DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej5-t0fAnkU&hl=en&fs=1]

(gracias Chola Crystal, I hope you break up w that biker vato asap. stat. im jealous. n ur hot.)

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definitions always work best at the beginning, though they do not delineate my writing:

chilena: (morena version)

pinochetista:

student:



chicana:

local art: so far, the definition I have derived is that of art created in-location, and remains within the area from which its medium has been proportioned. made-in-china “native american” art isnt local art. christmas trees bought down the street and decorated at home are local art. (i am not relating these examples to pagan rituals, etc). riverside townscapes about the mission inn sold in the shops nearby is local art. giant robot toys made in other asian countries are integral parts of LA identity, yet they are not local art. curanto is a hole in the ground from which people bake cookies and bread in south Chile, yet it is not local art unless its remains and evidence are moved to a museum a couple kms away.

post-modernism:

contemporary:

The classification of a handmade rug that is less than 25 years of age. Cotton In handmade rugs, this is the central material used to create its foundation. (www.wfca.org/Rugs/Glossary.aspx)

ok, so keeping in mind that i am not attempting to bore you to death, please giggle a little bit with me. a chuckle or something. una risita

what is it to be a foreign-born latina woman of color making art in southern california, in a predominantly brown-skinned school, hip hop, with a history of LGBTIQQA and polyamory activism, herb smoker, daily bike-rider and burrito eater, AND spanish speaking between classes. Well, to many, that would be a typical contemporary chicana artist living the contemporary chicana way of life. to some degree.

WELL. throw in some physical privilege, francophonie, strict table manners, difficult science degree, rock-solid parental values, otaku-ness, spanish and german surrealist / fantasy literature, french deconstructivism and realistic prose, j/k/hk/c/brit/euro/turbofolk/latin-pop/rock, bollywood and Goa, moderate psychedelic use, drum and bass/breakcore/breaks, and obsession with mexican fine arts. –> ok, this delineates the path which seeks to destroy this chicana way of like, the chicana way of life.

YET, given my provenance alone, I am deemed, the area of my residence also, to be pooled along with the women whose art I appear to be working against due to my subject matter. I am working on subjects un-related to the way of life of a latina preoccupied with equality of living in the space which was protected and kept for ages by her ancestors. Why is this so? I am aware that my privilege has provided me with a blank base of existence, a space where my art is not a response to my “unwanted” presence in the contemporary, post-mexican, post-colonial, pre-futuristic world of riverside.

So here I express my ultimate dream:

From the moment I landed in LAX back in teh DAY (1998-the nth move #1), with my backpack full of books and coloring pencils, wearing baggy levi’s from a previous trip to Las Vegas, and my favorite green Chilean designer top, I decided that my one goal in life must be to become the toughest and roughest Cholita the world ever saw. Those thin arched eyebrows, that pink-gold-salmon eyeshadow, the white eyeliner, and most of all, the burgundy lipstick with the dark lipliner… the dickies w the crease, the fat white shoes with the wiiiiiiiiiiiide laces, and the PERFECT hair. EEEEVERY day. I must have gained about 15 kgs getting my face as round as possible, my hips as wide, and my thighs as thick. I chopped my hair off to the core (my curls just weren’t perm-y enough), yet I still viewed head gear as a sigh, a sign of weaker gender, so I avoided bandannas, walking around in my new body and image, a chubby-lookin whitewashed pretend Vata.

Of course this didnt in reality, work. lots of persona studies came after that, attempting to find an “identity” for my foreign existence where even my latina sisters did not envision my as a peer.

CHICANA ART – according to Laura E Perez, attempts to draw strength for our women through exploration of artmaking as part of autochtonous spirituality. this is mexican land, latina land, and as earths of this earth, we must support and enforce our living as valid and as beautiful as any other colonial woman’s living.

it hurts not being mexican. why is this pattern of chilean artists falling in love with mexico and never going back forreals?? (aka La Ley ja ja ja ja ja) de lo bueno, bueno. de lo cierto, nada.

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• the return of Vatalina
• DAY UMMMMMMMMMMH TWO
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• Vatalina’s DIA CUATRO : BorethDAY!!!!!!