Artist Statement
I was born in Borikén, Puerto Rico. My understanding of the island was formed through movement, occupation, and diaspora. The weight of a colonized homeland surfaces through color, composition, pacing, and material choice. My practice emerges from the meeting point of politics and lived experience. Each piece becomes a record of movement between places, identities, mediums, and ways of seeing. My practice is a way to name what is personal and political at once and to imagine a world committed to becoming something more. I work with an awareness that culture survives through gesture and that memory becomes matter because structures tried to erase it.
As a mixed media artist, I move between digital and physical processes. I work with drawing, collage, printmaking, assemblage, and installation. I layer scanned textures, hand drawn imagery, archival fragments, and painted surfaces. Digital compositing allows rupture and reconstruction while traditional media gives tactility and intimacy. Many pieces hold clarity and fracture at once. They move toward feeling before explanation. They carry grief, resistance, tenderness, and joy.