Jazlyn Ochoa: "Word Search #30 - Finding Your Way"

As a Mexican-American woman, the intersectionality of my identity plants an inherent sense of self that helps me navigate all of my environments. It empathetically drives my perceptions and conversations, and I’ve come to learn that not everyone has or cares to listen to their intersectional voice. As immigrant families, we have to carve out our own place within new environments. To that, there’s humor and an inherent sense of self. There are traits and concepts we must observe, absorb, and critique. They let us pick apart even the smallest of our environments and our relationship to them. It’s confusing, ambiguous, clarifying, and interesting all at once. With my project, I aim to place emphasis on the complexity of it all by visualizing the process of analyzing and realizing the relationship between us and our environment.