The multi-colored wheat-paste of this urban rabbit comes from artist Omayra Amador. She's a Puerto Rican native raised in New York City, the Bronx to be specific, and influenced by that city’s street art and graffiti.  Amador attended high school in Manhattan and her portfolio led to a full ride at Parsons, then she traveled to Paris to study for 6 months. “That is where I discovered Banksy and I was hooked to street art,” Amador says. “I fell in love with the idea of putting your work in public to break someone from the routine. Street art, its raw, vulnerable, enticing.”

Her series is titled  “Milk The Bunny,”  and as  noted here earlier, looks like a “Mad Hatter psychedelic throwback, a happy social outlaw who wants to be the muse of the Arts District's 18 blocks.” The practiced strokes of color give detail on the fur of Amador’s personal street and fine art spirit animal, named "Unibunny." "I do remember loving and studying Diego Rivera's fresco paintings," she says. "They were vibrant. I wanted that for my wheat-pastes."

Her series now uses cans and floating clouds, iconography that comes from emotive recall. “I have fond memories of seeing Café Bustelo cans in my parent’s pantry," she says. "It's nostalgic for me. I recently began incorporating the cans into my installations and paintings.” The clouds and thought bubbles are the artist's thought process that is “always in the clouds.” It adds more layers of playing off her culture and how she identifies herself as a Latina artist.

Is it also about artists chasing ideas and ending up falling down a rabbit hole? Something like that, admits Amador. “Alice in Wonderland chasing something; that being new discoveries in my work.  There is always something to discover,” she says about the self-proclaimed obsession. “The bunny subject always seemed to recur in my work during college, so I kept that animal for symbolism."

Amador does stray away from her favored image.  She just completed a recent small acrylic and stencil folk-art style mural for the Las Vegas PhotoCollective, located inside Reclaimed Art Suppliez and Community Art Exchange.

“Moving out to Vegas from New York was good for me,” says Amador. “It had to happen in order for my work to grow. And it has tremendously.”

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