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Villalobos Soto's father was a farmworker in Washington's Yakima region. She has memories of going with her mother to take lunch to him. They would travel along the highways where she imagines the rolling vibrant green and gold hills as sleeping dinosaurs, punctuated by the endless blue skies.Label
My work often depicts nature and animals thriving in the manmade circumstances of their mural sites; industrial areas, urban landscapes, etc. Places where we might overlook the order of nature. I accomplish this by using color fluidly; selecting palettes from the area around me and playfully experimenting with shades, complimentary colors, and my favorite, neons! My figurative work lends itself to the imagination, for example how a wolf would appear in a fantastical technicolor dream. My goal is to always experiment and play with shapes and color, bringing the outside in.Label
Yakima Hills: While I was born in Seattle Washington, our dad moved us to a small
town outside of Yakima named Granger when I was young. Granger is known for these old dinosaur statues that welcome you when you drive into town. There, we grew up across the street from a berry patch, a bunch of burned down buildings that ravaged the area, dairy farms and fields, lots and lots of open fields. Since my dad was a farmworker, I have memories of bringing him lunch with my mom. Driving home on the highways, I remember the hills always reminded me of sleeping dinosaurs and dragons. For this painting I honed in on the idea of the hills being one of them and used for inspiration the greens of the fields he used to work, the blues of the endless skies, and the yellows of the earth.