My name is Marcus Venegas. I am a gay Mexican-American artist whose art focuses on that of my personal life experiences. My pieces explore autobiographical memory (the “remembering self” as referred to in psychology) and my trauma, of which is symbolized through the specific materials I use in my pieces. My art deals with concepts such as memory, harassment, self-perception, mental illness, romance, sexuality, etc. I aim to ironically beautify the disturbing, and delve into a part of myself I never connected with before.