Miguel R.

Miguel came to the open studio for the first time with his family (wife and 4 children) on 9/27. This morning, he was trying to fix the Continuum's sky window, and he stopped by to borrow the switch and transmission in my studio.

Almost noon, I invited him for lunch, and we chatted a bit. Miguel's mom is from Oxaca, and his father is from Jalisco. They met in Yaqui, Sonora and got married there. His father is the only child in the family. It is not too hard to see why Miguel has 11 brothers and sisters. Each of them is 2 years apart -24 years age difference from the oldest sibling to the youngest.

Every year, a 7 days celebration of reunion takes place everywhere. Miguel told me that they would kill a cow in every hour to give a continuous feast for everyone. It was a celebration combining religion, tradition, feast, music, and dance, etc...

He visits Yaqui from time to time. It will take him driving 20 hours to get there from LA. He and his family usually leave at 3 am and arrive around 10 pm. Most of people in Yaqui seldom leave the place. It is a large closed community. A highway in between divides the people into two groups -east and west. People from the east do not do business, go to school, communicating with people from the west and vice versa. Miguel said during his elementary school years, he made some Native American friends, and they still keep in touch with each other. He visit them whenever he goes back to Yaqui.

He will let me know if he has a topic for me to paint and to participate this project.

note: He did not tell what to paint after that.