GERMS Virtual Art Show...Collection Selections #1

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5. Thank you for posting the video

I learned so much more about what it means to be a Chicano, distinctive and a power in its own right. I did already know there was a uniqueness born from two basic cultures and I’ve been a Cheech and Chong fan from the beginning and deeply appreciate their humorous pocho quality in its own right.

In my heart I love the refusal to “assimilate” and the culture that has grown out of it. I am very comfortable with it as it grows and spreads outside its genesis. I loved it when I lived in California and I love it even more where I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico now. The varied cultures are more integrated in NM, though still distinctly unique, probably because Santa Fe as a center of culture and power is much, much older than our United States as a country is.

I did kind of get it a little just by looking at the paintings, but I get it much more with your video. Thanks!