Submission Painting

Rancho Metztli

My current work explores human growth not through technology, but through connection, memory, and rooted ways of living. Using oil paint, I depict everyday moments, contemporary figures, and imagined garments inspired by pre-Columbian and Jalisco culture. I’m interested in how clothing, symbols, and color can preserve identity, spark dialogue, and resist erasure. Through these visual stories, I advocate for sustainable, land-based values upheld by Indigenous communities—systems grounded in slowness, intimacy, and care. I paint to reclaim culture, romanticize small moments, and imagine a future shaped by ancestral knowledge, not algorithms.


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Rancho Metztli

My current work explores human growth not through technology, but through connection, memory, and rooted ways of living. Using oil paint, I depict everyday moments, contemporary figures, and imagined garments inspired by pre-Columbian and Jalisco culture. I’m interested in how clothing, symbols, and color can preserve identity, spark dialogue, and resist erasure. Through these visual stories, I advocate for sustainable, land-based values upheld by Indigenous communities—systems grounded in slowness, intimacy, and care. I paint to reclaim culture, romanticize small moments, and imagine a future shaped by ancestral knowledge, not algorithms.