Artist Maria Maea is a first-generation Mexican Samoan from Long Beach, CA. She says she includes her family in a lot of her work, because “with such a large family, I feel like I have almost a case study of what migration is.”
You’ve alluded to this collective experience that you‘ve shared with your family. I feel like, in many ways, our family is one of our earliest communities, one of our first communities that we interact with before we have friends and start to socialize in these different spaces. Can you take a moment to just talk about who your family is and where it is that you come from?I’m a first-generation Mexican Samoan from Long Beach, Calif.
I think a lot of material collects around me in that way. Like, the discarded — I can walk down the street and find somebody’s rearview mirror that fell off, and I collect it and I bring it back and I set it in a space. isn’t dissimilar to how you engage with people — at least for me, I feel like it’s been a very caring and supportive relationship that I’ve had with you.
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