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Me Tengo Que Ir, Eddy Leonel Aldana
Me Tengo Que Ir, Eddy Leonel Aldana
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
In Spanish, me tengo que ir means “I have to go.” “I have to go” as in go home, or back to one’s home country. As in leaving home for the unforeseeable future, hang up the phone, or pass away. me tengo que ir is also the name of a song by Adolescent’s Orquesta — a song about love, loss, and heartbreak over time that was always played at family parties when I was growing up.
In me tengo que ir, I use world history and personal memory to examine my family’s place within the Guatemalan diaspora. Diaspora is …