​I’m an environmental artist. My maxim is We Are the Planet and my mission is to create art that evokes empathy and reframes co-existence with all life. My work is also intrinsically about identity: I’m a contemporary Itz’a (artist-sage in Maya) and a recorder of time.  I work at the intersection of art and science; my practice is a laboratory of art where I seek truths and question all man-made constructs. My practice has been influenced by Mexican Muralists such as Diego Rivera, and Abstract Expressionists Helen Frankenthaler & Robert Rauschenberg. I work in series and in multiple mediums including painting, collage, works on paper, sculpture and performance. My art is a direct transference of my energy, for which I use industrial tools -such as rakes, brooms and house paint deriving from my architectural background and as a nod to immigrants- to produce gestural abstraction in conjunction with natural elements. I construct my work as an archeological dig, depositing information in layers, making complex knowledge visible and approachable through the use of materials with DNA, history & provenance including gauze, and raw burlap from coffee sacks from El Salvador, iron drops and rebar. My Global Hues Palette is a result of my research on the most ubiquitous four pigments found naturally, used by early humans/artists. To these I add my signature pigment, the globally traded artisanal Maya indigo blue that I source from ancient seed, which gives me an earthy, grounded, and cohesive palette. My performance is derived from my mitochondrial connection to my Maya Women ancestry -as keepers of the planet- that manifests itself in the form of wearable art. 

 

 

 

 

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