Border Dog: Buñuel The Labradoodle Glitter Sticker by Andrea Muñoz Martinez of XOXO AMMO

Border Dog: Buñuel The Labradoodle Glitter Sticker
Andrea Muñoz Martinez
XOXO AMMO
Vinyl Die Cut Sticker
3” x 1.25”

I insert dogs into scenes of Borderlandia. Dog heads and bodies float, sit and lay on the landscape. Flying, levitating, they are part of the energy exchanged when a border is crossed, moved or destroyed. This energy is often manifested as the anxiety and pain of crossing through the darkness of night. Dogs in Borderlandia become guardians and companions. They provide protection and guidance to border-crossers. A guardian that is with us through a very traumatic experience provides a witness to our journey, someone that knows what we have been through can also help us to heal from whatever trauma border-crossing has created. Portraits of dogs insert humor, comfort, and joy into difficult but urgent realities about the borderlands. This mini-print is made of thick, durable vinyl that protects your stickers from scratches, water, and sunlight. They’re even dishwasher safe. 

Get to Know the Austin Artist:
Andrea Muñoz Martínez is a Latinx artist who paints abstract landscapes of a re-imagined place called Borderlandia.  She was born and raised in Uvalde, TX. Martinez earned a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the University of California, Davis. She is a border artist not only because she grew up in the borderlands of South Texas but also because her paintings and performance art take the border and boundaries as their subject.

I grew up in south Texas where hill country meets brush country.  It is the vitality and depth of this vast landscape that my art evokes.  Inspired by the writings of the theorist Gloria Anzaldua, who described the border as a “1,950 mile-long open wound,” I render a place I call Borderlandia.