Raised along the U.S.-Mexico border, my work investigates how place, perception, and inherited histories shape the construction of my own identity. My work becomes both an object and a documentation, tracing the ongoing investigations across internal and external borders.
The human form is at the core of my practice, serving as a vessel to explore themes of assimilation, immigration, and cultural hybridity. Through a mixture of traditional rendering, abstraction, and fragmentation, I depict figures that reflect the tension of culturally layered spaces. My compositions incorporate divided planes, symbolic motifs, and references drawn from Chicano iconography, geographical locations, and contemporary culture.
I often work with acrylic, oil, graphite, found objects, and multimedia approaches. Bisected panels, fractured planes, and materiality play a central role in my process, and are used to address themes of heritage, memory, erasure, and displacement. My compositional decisions are not merely aesthetic; rather, they serve as intentional strategies for articulating the complexities of border life and asserting presence within contested spaces.