Esmeralda Velasquez is a visual artist pursuing her BA in Art Practice with an emphasis on Oil Painting at the University of California, Berkeley. Their work combines traditional easel paintings and mixed media painting exploration. Their paintings are large-scale, colorful, concise, structured, and include still-lifes derived from family photographs. Either from albums or self-taken images. The paintings have borderline illustrative qualities and realistic qualities combining 2D and 3D perspectives. Some pieces have more narrative-forward stories while others derive from her studies in Art History. A primary focus of the artist includes covering topics such as family dynamics, Hispanic culture, self-identity, societal beauty standards, space, insomnia, and minority economic disparities.