Artist Statement

My work is rooted in lived experience; shaped by migration, identity, and the layered realities of existing between cultures. Born in Mexico and raised in the United States, I carry an evolving understanding of belonging, visibility, and inheritance. These tensions, along with my work in public service alongside communities navigating systems of power and protection, inform the questions I bring into the studio.

I work across photography, installation, and mixed media, approaching each project as an unfolding inquiry rather than a fixed outcome. My process begins with what lingers; a moment, emotion, or rupture that resists resolution. I stay with that tension, allowing meaning to emerge over time rather than forcing closure.

I am drawn to the spaces where contradiction exists; where grief and joy coexist, where fragility holds strength, and where disruption creates possibility. My work does not seek to resolve these tensions, but to hold them. In doing so, it becomes a site for reflection, where what is felt but not always spoken can take form.

Play and experimentation are essential to my practice. They allow me to engage complexity with openness, creating space for both weight and light to exist simultaneously. Through this process, I explore how transformation happens; not as a clean transition, but as something layered, nonlinear, and ongoing.

Art, for me, is both a practice of witnessing and a process of becoming. It offers a way to metabolize experience, to remain in dialogue with what is unresolved, and to reshape what has fractured into forms that can hold complexity without diminishing it.