I am interested in art created by and in search of spiritual connection, growth, and repair. 

 

Artistic expression accesses a frequency for communication with nature, ancestors, lost histories and prospective futures. 

 

The basis of my creation begins with personal soul work, researching and exploring the reasons for circumstance. Both in the personal sense (family archives, psychology readings, textiles) and in a larger, global sense (historical readings, documentaries, physical excursions).

 

In these discoveries connections are made - why do I feel the way I do, think the way I do, am afraid of the things I’m afraid of? What have I lost to not impose on the world? Are my fears inherited by much larger societal systems? What has carried in my blood for generations? What has nature preserved?

 

Within the personal familial context of Chile’s coup and dictatorship, and the ambiguities of Puerto Rican emigration, my histories and discoveries do not stand alone from a larger context.

 

My work seeks to explore those truths with grains of futuristic/ancient curiosity, incorporating abstract visuals pulling from natural elements and beings - whose patterns are both ancient and without end. 

 

The elements, stars, water, trees, are all patterns I revisit in various mediums. Through paint, print, collage, literature, archive, and digital effects, my artwork seeks to expand application to optimize emotional experience.

 

Raised in the club and record store scene in NY, generations of my family have sought expression through communal song and dance. Naturally, my work looks to occupy a similar spiritual space. 

 

Ultimately, this all encompasses a search for true freedom. For an acceptance of the brutally painful past, and an honest attempt to resist simplification, discard the inherited ugliness, and bring forth love in spite of fear.

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