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Jackelin Solorio is a bay area latinx artist, her artwork is interdisciplinary. Jackelin creates sculptures and at times she incorporates performance arts to her work bringing inanimate objects to life. Solorio’s artworks are conceptually driven, her inspirations come from her feelings while attempting to communicate her experiences. Solorio’s art is personal tackling feminist views, she doesn't claim to represent all women as all women are unique. It is her desire to create a sense of sisterhood and community. While securing a safe space for expressing insecurities that might arise from people who identify as women. Solorio’s continued interest is due to the extensive possibilities within multidisciplinary arts including but are not limited to ceramics, performance, installation, photography, and painting. She most often works with ceramics because its weight conveys the heaviness of her emotions. Solorio find’s that pushing her body and her creations' to extremes is a process she has an affinity for which helps her find her breaking point. Solorio usually works fast with drive, often leaving gestural traces on her artworks. She has identified her aesthetics with her culture, naturally creating recognizable Mexican traits. Solorio grew up with a religious family in her early childhood, this has left her grappling with personal issues, religion, women's bodies and culture are recurring topics in her art. Solorio’s grew up with a very independent hard-working mother in a single-parent household this has shaped her feminist ideals, she continually tackle ideas of strength, fragility, self-esteem and sexuality. Solorio wants people to find a commonality and a sense of self-discovery when encountering her work she strives to push herself to create while exploring her evolutionary journey, as her artworks capture her development as it is happening.