El Manipulador

Refran: "If a bird’s wings are chopped off they’ve lost their spirit"

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Student Biography: My name is Fatima Gomez. I was born in Santa Maria California and my family’s from  Michoacán. We’re a family of 6 my parents, 3 older brothers, and being the youngest and only daughter.  I enjoy many things but I love school, going out, cooking, walking, traveling, and hanging out with family.  After graduation I plan to going to a University and pursue a degree in the medical field.  El Manipulador is about a Man having control over his wife. The woman in the painting is  representing a woman in a machismo household. She has a blindfold on to represent how woman in the  relationship don’t see the picture in a bigger scale and process what’s actually going on in their  relationship. She also has an apron on to represent how most of the wife’s that are in a machismo  household are stay-at-home wife’s. They are expected to clean, cook, and take care of the kids. She’s  also smaller to represent how fragile she’s in the relationship. She also has a happy smile with a frown  crossing each other which represents the bitter sweet moments in her relationship. On her right there is  a man that represents her husband. Her husband has an angry face, bills and cash in his pockets, and his  hands in a fist. The fist represent power in the relationship and dominance. Also since the wife is just a  stay at home mom her husband is the only one that brings in an income. That’s why he has bills and  money in his pocket. He’s also hind of over shadowing her to also represent that he’s the one that in a  since that they do as they say because he’s the man. On the left of her there is a kid that is leaning  against her leg and crying. This is trying to interpret how the mom is always taking care of the kids and  how they grow up being attached to their mother because they spend so much more time with her and  she’s always there for when they need her. As for the father he’s always working and when he gets  home, he won’t try to take care of the kids because that’s the wife’s job to raise them. The message I’m  trying to convey through my painting is how woman in a machismo relationship are being treated how  they should have the freedom to do as they please and not go off what their husband wants they to do.