• 16 images of various aspects of the creator's life are depicted in small rectangles, including an illustration of covid (el covid), a unicorn (el unicornio), Zoom (el Zoom), the sun (el sol). At the top of the images are the words, Loteria, Tabla 20.
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Loteria 2020, 2021.

This artwork is a 2020-21 Loteria (lottery) card. This is basically meant to show how 2020 felt like a gamble to me. The year overall had terrible events going on from a pandemic to wildfires to unemployment. It felt as if everyday the average working class person would gamble their lives with a major catastrophe. During this time social media was only reporting how many people had caught Covid or lost their jobs. When I made a list of the images I wanted on my 2020 Loteria I realized that it was a somewhat depressing, so I added in personal goals that I achieved in 2020 or my favorite objects which made last year more bearable. Like adding my cat and dog, the sun, cactus, graduation, and more. I also decided to add in the unicorn in the lottery because my cat and dog seem a little lonely as the only animals on the card.

Maria Escamilla
B.A. English, 2021 | UC Berkeley Visual Arts |
Maria Escamilla was born in México and raised in the Central Valley. Her ethnic background inspired her in the “Loteria 2020” artwork. Maria is passionate about her culture and properly representing it to a wider audience. Maria does not have any artistic background, and this is why she chose color pencils and sketch paper as her medium.