Alvaro D. Marquez
Your Presence Counts - Tu Presencia Cuenta, 2020
Serigraph, Ed. of 60
21.5”x34”

Marquez’s map-based print of Southern Los Angeles County, possibly the south bay where the artist lived. The Spanish ships, scattered tent encampments, and police cars reference colonialism, homelessness, and policing. Your Presence Counts is a message of empowerment specifically to the communities of color in the fight against the social, economic, and political oppression. These are the same oppressions that augment the number of homeless victims and decrease all sense of stability.