Pentimento

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From an Italian word meaning to repent a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist's earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes of confession ekphrasis and biblical persona </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pentimento</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> excavates a queerness entangled in one's faith tradition. Whether seeking to understand his relationship to god friends or family Garcia interrogates questions that arise on the path to self-acceptance. In Self-Portrait as a Virgin a biblical persona asks How else are we to take words whole / in our mouths except as they are given? Concerned with naming desire love and belonging </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pentimento</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a response to a kind of annunciation the almost supernatural calling of the artist to find words through which the self is free to move. </span></p>