As a multidisciplinary artist, my work centers around concepts such as political or societal issues regarding uplifting feminist ideals, all people’s right to education, and racial, cultural, and gender equality. My work is also inspired by personal experience and cultural influences as I explore my relationship with my heritage to develop a stronger connection with my Latina, Indigenous, and black identities. Through my practice, I process the distance from my culture I grew up feeling and embrace my cultures as I reconnect with them, learning to let them embrace me in return. The goal of my practice is to challenge widely – or blindly – accepted ideas in order to amplify marginalized voices, and share my own story with those who relate to feeling torn between multiple parts of themselves.
My work manifests itself through drawing, sculpture, and fashion. My charcoal and colored pencil drawings are highly rendered and based in realism with self-portraiture and the body as a subject, while my sculpture work utilizes materials like cardboard and paper, and is more abstracted: a visibly crafted representation of real objects. In my fashion practice, the garments I create emulate elegance through silhouette and precise construction. My choice of material as it relates to each work depends on the relationship the concept has to the medium. The two create a conversation best heard when they work in tandem to convey my message: drawing as a window into my mind, sculpture that creates intimate, but immersive space, or a garment makes the wearer part of a performance. My process, in this way, provides me the opportunity to freely follow the paths my interests lead me down without limitation of medium, while offering challenges to traverse, overcome, and learn from.