At the center of this project is the migratory experience and how this reality shifts with context. The U.S., as part of the Americas, has a significant Latinx population maintaining strong cultural affiliations with Latin America, while experiencing pressures of xenophobia. "Far from the distance we see" is concerned with this fragmentation of culture and the inquiry: 'How can the US, through these pockets of Latinx community, be at once an extension of Latinidad, and yet not of?'
 
Through the lens of my family’s specific experience as migrant laborers from México and their difficult history in Texas, this work is meant to offer a portal and bridge into thinking through the nuances of migratory experiences from Latin America. It is specific and yet when considering, for example, the data of those incarcerated within the U.S. prison system, Latinxs represent a disproportionate amount. Furthermore the discourse surrounding ICE detention centers propagated by anti-immigration conservatives, neglects the history of the U.S. encouragement of cheap migrant labor. 
My video essays are a hybrid of documentary filmmaking, oral history, and 3D rendering. The structure of the installation creates a relationship between the viewer and the film through the use of the privacy film. The viewer must physically reorient themselves in order to view the film. As the title alludes to, this gestures to how there’s so much more about the Latinx experience we do not see at first glance.