“Art as Witness, Resistance & Refuge” 🕊️🎨
Painting St. Óscar Romero on this wall is my act of solidarity with immigrant children facing erasure by the Trump administration. Under the 2018 “zero tolerance” policy, over 5,500 children were forcibly separated from their parents, many still lost to bureaucratic chaos aclu.org+8en.wikipedia.org+8time.com+8. Today, the threat of mass deportation and targeted court arrests continues—ICE raids are up 268% year-over-year, tearing families apart even in places like California theguardian.com.

Romero, El Salvador’s iconic champion of the oppressed, demands that we protect the innocent and resist injustice. This portrait is a prayer and a protest: a call to shield immigrant children from being disappeared in the name of policy.

No child is a tool. No family disposable.
Art is memory. Art is resistance. Art is hope.