Deep Ellum Community Arts Fair
Presents
Rachel Ramirez
About
Visit booth #
Painting
Midland, TX
The work I create represents a lot of where I’m from, my culture and my experiences. I choose cacti a lot in my paintings for their resilience and strength, turning them into crowns on the portraits I paint. I love working with patterns and fabrics and blending the two together, creating this sort of contemporary bohemian desert imagery mixed with old southwest tales.
https://www.cactuscrownstudios.com/
What does Deep ellum mean to me?
To be honest I’m not sure what Deep Ellum means to me…but it’s how I see it. I see Deep Ellum as this new and “otherworldly” place that has grown and re-grown again and again from a historical time in Dallas. And that has developed and embraced creativity and individuality in its ever so evolving surroundings. What I see is a very important thing happening here, to the arts and to art culture…and that can mean…well, a lot to creatives like myself.