Melanie Cervantes
12″ x 18″
1-color, Handmade Screen Print. Split Fountain/Rainbow Roll (Non-Iridescent)
Open Edition
Chipboard
Printed in San Leandro, 2015
“Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.”- Gloria Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back
For more analysis on how Anzaldua reconfigured Spanish poet Antonio Machado’s verse and why she chose this specific language see Imelda Martín-Junquera “Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature” here.