2014 Contest

Making Work Visible

City University of New York / Labor Arts

Jonathan Batista

Visual Arts First Place

Jonathan Batista

Fine Arts, Queens College

West Side Coffee Shop Waiter

West Side Coffee Shop Waiter (2014)

H 24” x W 18”

Ink, Spray-paint, Whiteout

As a waiter and a lower class Hispanic male living in the projects I have carried a perceived notion from those around me of being uneducated, a thief and financially dependent on others. Being sensitive to the actions that society made towards me caused me to develop insecurities of where I am in society’s social concept. With art I learned to realize my insecurities as an irrational fear.

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