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Remembering that how we handle visual space in our paintings will reflect our concept of environmental freedom.
There is resistance, from the Chicanos, against assimilation into a "pure" Mexican society and Anglo-American society. Chicanismo is the process of synthesis of these cultures in varying dosages as suits personal and group tastes, with the idea that it never loses its identity as a culture of synthesis of the Americas and Europe.
A process of cultural secession (social internalization process) must be initiated in order to allow ourselves to being to view ourselves with our own eyes and arrive at our own definition about our state of existence and express the nature of our concern for this state.
Cultural genocide (agression) has been inflicted upon the Chicano, however there is now a nascent awareness that [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] has spawned a flurry of cultural activity in an attempt to resuscitate and regenerate a wounded culture. Technological vs. sociological (humanistic) awareness.