Robinson is a visual artist who uses coded language and symbols to explore ideas of identity and place. She grew up in the military with her immediate family, an intersection of her Mexican and Jewish heritages. She was a child of worlds in which histories, language and religion were repressed or traded for other identities and it is these themes that continually inform my work. Robinson takes inspiration from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, in which the author explores borders in language, location and culture. The friction of two worlds: (una herida abierta- the open wound) where one world grates against the first that a third is created. Using Morse code, flag semaphore and the flag form Robinson appropriates symbols of American exceptionalism, which are informed by her upbringing and familiarity with military family life, American ideals, and an attraction to language and meaning. The work conjures ideas of nation, place, power, identity and her own interest in what it means to be Mexican American.

Robinson’s work explores these ideas using language and symbols. In her most recent work she is exploring what it means to be authentically Mexican or authentically American. How far back can someone push the question of being one or another. It may come in language, in notions of progress, and in symbols. She is continually questioning how several truths can be held at once: the aspiration of what it means to be American and what it means to be Mexican American and the political weapon of language (Chicano/a, Latinx/a/o/e, Hispanic, and Mexican-American).