Author: Olivia Barrionuevo

I released the monarchs in my soul,  through my eyes. We are all on earth for such a short time and if we fail to see how we are all connected with everything here, then our time here will not be well spent. We must care for each other and everything here as we care…

Climate change, human rights and immigration are heavy topics to talk to about, but what is so beautiful about art is in they way humans create to express a feeling through different mediums to unify, connect and share with the world. Art makes a big impact when it’s expressed in a way people can understand,…

I was so moved by the beauty of the Monarch project. Walking up from the LA River path to discover a Silver Lake stairway covered in thousands of orange butterflies, flanked by brilliant magenta bougainvilleas and the bright blue sky took my breath away. Hearing the music out of sight and above and reading the…

Moverse para ocupar espacios. Para mi, la migración es una idea que representa un instinto natural de movilidad y que responde a una curiosidad humana por conocer y ocupar espacios para superar nuestras necesidades. Sin embargo, esta idea se está derrumbando al ver cómo este fenómeno se está convirtiendo en una salida desesperada y forzada…

It was so much fun to be part of the Monarch Installation, I am from Washington DC and I have been in Los Angeles for about half my life. Immigration is a person moving form one place to another, so I have “immigrated” from the East Coast to here. Everyone has their own story. I’m…

You split the world into pieces and called them countries Declared ownership on what never belonged to you and left the rest with nothing. ‘Rupi Kaur’

Olivia Barrionuevo’s Monarch project is a delight. There is the delight of the butterflies ‘in flight’ around the room. And then there is the photo set, where Olivia takes her terrific photos of everyone with the butterflies. Then their is the reward of watching visitors delight in their own participation of the work. And there…

At the magical age of seven my family and I flew north to the land of the ancient Tongva people, my Father had envisioned a life of more opportunity and experiences. By that time English was the main language now spoken there, but I only knew one of its words, “no”. It was a culture…