Hello I’m Cesar Arredondo, a Mexican-American artist working and living in Aurora, CO.

My work revolves around the relationships between identities, geography, and the possession of land. How the space we occupy in our youth shapes our identity and how the acquisition and loss of land affects us. 

I created this body of work as a way of coping and working through the current political climate regarding immigrants and the other. To deal with the idea of being seen as an invader on land that they are indigenous to. 

I want the viewer to question the everyday actions that make up our lives and consider how they affect the lives and identities of those around us. How the simple action of getting a cup of coffee can have dramatic consequences to a neighborhood and its occupants. 

My style comes from and is informed by graffiti and its many contradictions. The way it can bring either prosperity or destruction, be seen as beauty or decay. The ebb and flow of creating the mark and its eventual cover up.