Diego Mireles Duran is a first-gen Latinx interdisciplinary artist based out of Austin, Tx and Oakland, Ca. Their creative practice explores liminal identity and ways to root in something recognizable while in diaspora. Through a variation of media such as painting/ sculpture, sound and digital collage, DMD borrows references from ancestral Mexican culture as well as current and childhood memories. Their optical language is a playful expression; chaotically conglomerating motifs such as 90’s Mexican pop and Norteño Music, Mexican candy, traditional artisan practices, and even home cleaning products of their youth. "I want my output to represent what liminality feels like to me. I want it to feel like a word at the tip of the tongue."