"Margarita" Daisy Sanchez
Daisy Sanchez was born in 1998 in Las Vegas Nevada. She is currently earning her BFA with an Emphasis in Sculpture Practices at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Much of her work is based on memories, irony, humor, and the human body.
She is an interdisciplinary artist working with found objects, video, photography, oil and acrylic paint. She prefers to work with found objects to explore the qualities and take creative risks. With different materials, it has the advantage of conceptually and figuratively be used to express her concepts. She is inspired by the world around her from past to present experiences as an individual and her culture.
Daisy Sanchez’s artistic philosophy seeks in giving a different perspective to allow imagination to the viewer. Through the world of avant-garde she holds her greatest interest to showcase the unusual, shock, expressiveness and conveying any kind of emotion is important.
“Margarita means Daisy in Spanish so as a kid I thought Margarita was my Mexican name and Daisy was my American name. At 5 years old it made a lot of sense to me and I told people my name is Margarita.
I never appreciate my culture enough until I visited Oregon and was culture shocked. Seeing diversity is normal to me. It made me realize how unique life with immigrant family is.
The sweetest and most beautiful things in everyday life are the little things. Like family parties where they try to make the best out of what they have. Hearing the street vendors bells and running out to get pallets as a kid. Having breakfast like we were in the rancho. The music I would hear my dad listen to while drinking tequila. The poetic movement and the faith it comes when someone older is giving you the sign of the holy cross (cuando alguien te persigna). The older cousins I watched grow and never change.
