This project is a celebration of strangeness — of the beauty that lives inside a fragmented identity. My Spanglish Doors cover is about transforming what once felt disjointed, invisible, or out of place into something original and whole.
This work is a dialogue with my younger self — a manifesto for anyone who’s ever felt invisible, unfit, or too much.
The Doors were one of the first bands my dad exposed me to, shaping my sense of sound and feeling, while my mother’s latinidad and the first-generation experience taught me depth, distance, and duality. I filmed the video at the Jersey Shore, a place he used to take me, grounding the work in memory and transformation.
The style of this cover reflects both sides of my inheritance: the rock and psychedelia that run through my father’s influence, and the cultural strangeness and emotional intensity I carry through my mother. Together, they form a dialogue with my younger self — and an offering to anyone who has ever felt the same.
By blending languages, sounds, and memories, I reclaim my originality. I embrace the contradictions. I honor the wounds and the wonders. And I transform the fragments of loss into something whole, sublime, and defiantly my own.