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My Mexican indigenous heritage and the current state of the world inspired me to do this piece.

The Mexica (known as the Aztecs) believed that four preceding suns or ages in history existed prior to our current one. "Nahui Ollin" is the fifth sun over our current world. The fifth world will be destroyed through a series of catastrophic events, just like the previous four worlds. There have been so many catastrophic events within the last 5 years that I felt the need to do a piece with a message and warning. We cannot stop the world from ending one day, but we can change many things so that the world doesn't decay as fast. Let's start change now.

I was born and raised in Mexico City and moved to the US at the age of 15. I have lived in many cities in the US since then. Houston has been my favorite city and where I currently reside. I have a Management Information Systems degree with no formal training in art. I started drawing people and self portraits at a very young age mainly to feel better and to cope during difficult times. I found out as a child that pouring my emotions into the women in my drawings and paintings would give me a great sense of relief. I continued drawing and painting women until my senior year in high school. I stopped doing art when I went to college. After I graduated, my focus shifted to my programming career. Many years went by and my artwork became...