Fergie Lopez

When I Cut Into the World, I Speak Back

As a youth, mixing globs of paint with a paintbrush allowed me to create the palette of color I needed to imitate the world of color around me. My kindergartener's point of view worried about getting it right- I needed the correct hues for the tops of trees, the stems of flowers, and importantly, reptile skin (to make sure a friend could do justice to the new crime-fighting, pizza- devouring, sewer-living, teen-age mutant ninja turtles t-shirt he had convinced his parent’s to buy him over the weekend).