‘Una Voz Desatada’ exhibit at Bihl Haus gives voice to an immigrant child’s trauma
When Rocio Alvarado Lockwood talked about her childhood in the time right after her family moved across the border from Juarez into El Paso, she left out some of the more harrowing aspects.
“When she did talk about it, she sort of played it off or lightened it,” said Dean Lockwood, her widower.
She did, however, write about that time in heart-rending terms. Text from those writings factor into “Una Voz Desatada: The Art, Writings and Trauma of an Immigrant Child,” a posthumous exhibit of her artwork and writing opening Saturday at Bihl Haus Arts.