La Flaca Calaca: Solo Show y Art Gallery Exhibition

Join us at BRICK at Blue Star Arts Complex for an evening of multimedia artwork and performance by Georgette María.

From the artist: I wrote a solo show about healing generational curses. Rocío Alvarado Lockwood was my mother, and before that she was an artist. She was a printmaker and made mostly charcoal sketches. I always knew my mother loved me fiercely, but I have these memories as a child where the seemingly smallest things would trigger her- she could become so angry with me. It was as though she was reacting to someone or something that I couldn\’t see. As an adult, I learned that these memories left big scars and that I needed to find forgiveness for my mom and for myself for how I chose to cope with it.

In 2012 I found out she had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. This brought things into perspective. My mom, Rocío, and I began to open up the conversation around the different ways we hurt each other emotionally and physically. She was completing her degree and certification in bilingual education. It was during this time that she began to write the story of her own childhood coming to the United States from Mexico.

She went into remission, but soon found out she was sick with Pancreatic Cancer. She taught 2nd grade at Somerset Elementary School for two years before she died on November 3, 2015. We would discover her autobiographical writing in the pages of a tattered, yellow notebook where she kept her notes for school. Among her things were sketches and prints she had made that all shared a theme of a broken childhood. The relics that she left behind were the tools I needed to forgive her and make amends with my own brokenness. In telling my story, my mission is to empower others to break the cycle of their own intergenerational trauma.