Misión Artística

My name is Byron José Sun, and I'm an educator, writer, and photographer with roots in every place I have lived in. I want to use my creativity to promote a vision of humanity, compassion, sacrifice, and justice by exploring life in both violence and non-violence.

I firmly believe the writer mustn’t try to replace the world with a less violent version, but instead present it as it is, to force people to feel and think of the place they hold in it.For a moment, I want the reader to suspend their reality, their own perspective—to send them spinning in a different direction so they can experience the things I have seen firsthand.

I'm but a tool to give agency and voice to those who haven't been allowed one. Because of that, I mustn't forget the reality, the hardships, and the happy moments of the individuals my stories represent, as this is one way I can preserve our humanity.

Sincerely,

Visión

Having a decolonized anti-racist mindset is not only about understanding all of the hate around you but also about looking inwards and understanding how language, micro-aggressions, life events, and how your thoughts shape the actions that define you as a human being.

Some Latino are born with a veil, and others, like myself, develop one as we migrate from our birth countries to our new home country. We are gifted with a second-sight in an American world that yields us an extra consciousness. It's a peculiar sensa

Illegal Alien

W. E. B. Du Bois recontextualized with a modern Latino lens:

Some Latino are born with a veil, and others, like myself, develop one as we migrate from our birth countries to our new home country. We are gifted with a second-sight in an American world that yields us an extra consciousness. It's a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness—an American, a Latino; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two ideals at war in one brown body whose dogged strength keeps it from being torn asunder. I will raise my veil, so that you can faintly see my deeper recesses, the passion of my human sorrow, and the struggle of my greater souls. So that for this one instance it becomes possible for a person to be both a Latino and an American, without being cursed and stereotyped by others, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in our face.