My work emerges at the intersection of rupture and resilience. I paint not to depict what is already seen, but to excavate the layers beneath—memory, culture, justice, and the quantum threads that bind them. Each canvas becomes an arena where contradictions collide: beauty and brutality, reverence and rebellion, fragility and force. I am drawn to socially engaged subject matter—stories erased, voices silenced, identities contested—and I confront these tensions through abstraction that is both emotional and intellectual.
I believe abstraction is not an escape from reality but a deeper plunge into it. By rejecting literal representation, I invite viewers to enter the liminal space where intuition guides perception. This is where we recognize the patterns of time, trauma, and transformation. In mixed media—pastel, acrylic, collage, and textural interventions—I layer contradictions the way culture layers histories. A brushstroke may evoke a geologic fault line or a heartbeat; a pastel fragment may recall a child’s sketch or a tribal mark erased by assimilation. Every mark is a negotiation between presence and erasure.
Cultural history and social justice anchor my work. Pieces like Abuela speak to Native identity fragmented by systemic violence, legal erasures, and forgotten lineages. Works in my “Webb of Life” series draw from astrophysics, the James Webb Telescope, and the radical notion that time itself bends, tessellates, and collapses. I am compelled by how science, like art, destabilizes certainty and forces us to reimagine our place in the cosmos. This duality—ancestral memory grounded in earth, and infinite wonder reaching into the stars—threads through much of my practice.
Yet my work is also deeply personal. Painting is where I metabolize experience, grief, and survival. In moments of rupture—whether systemic injustice or intimate harm—I return to the canvas as both witness and weapon. The act of painting is itself an assertion of agency: the hand that once trembled in silence now leaves indelible marks. My art becomes a refusal to disappear, an insistence on visibility, an invocation that beauty and justice must coexist.
Community is essential to this practice. I aim not to create distant admiration but to spark conversation, connection, and collective imagining. I believe creativity is a form of resilience accessible to all, and my work participates in democratizing that access—whether through community exhibitions, collective projects, or interactive installations that blur the line between artist and viewer.
Ultimately, my work is an exploration of paradox. It is about holding multiplicity without collapse: the geometry of time and the weight of history; the joy of resistance and the ache of survival; the mystery of the cosmos and the intimacy of memory. My canvases are not answers but openings—portals into the unspoken, the unresolved, and the infinite possibilities of becoming.
