About My Work

As a Hispanic artist with disabilities caused from Spinocerebellar Ataxia, a rare neurological disease that is progressive, affecting my ability to walk, talk, balance myself and use fine motor skills, my artwork not only considers the essential structure of skeletal or embryonic animal references but has become a vehicle to interpret transformative changes occurring in my body caused from the progression of the disease.  Also, my work researches and brings awareness people living with disabilities while pushing the boundaries of contemporary art.  My work discusses these concepts by focusing on movement's copious flow, a manner of passage of the living body to one’s gait and gesture.  This work drives examination and permits curiosity uncovering aspects of human nature and wonder of origin.  These juxtaposed ideas reveal blurred distinctions between connections and dysfunction exhibited in multi-media multivalent invocations of the body.

My work serves as a metaphor between our connections, wonder of the natural world and to our future.  Like a river or the blood flowing through our veins, our human connection and vessel is in continuous change, transition and movement.  This work explores the malfunction of systems to communicate with the whole body and the interrelated fluid parts that flow together.  My work discusses and celebrates the fluid connections and movements of body and time, like a river in motion moving toward transformation and hope for our future.  

I have been weaving different paper qualities and gauges of copper and steel wire together while strengthening the materials with liquid starch, paper clay slip and epoxy.  Also, I have been hand building ceramic molds to cast paper or glass frit while incorporating woven copper pieces inside each of the different materials.  When the copper and steel wire structures are added to the cast paper they create unique textures, strength and durability.  When the copper wire structures are added to the glass frit and fired in the molds they oxidize and create iridescent hues that are incased inside the glass structure.

Each piece is incredibly light weight because of the materials used and the audience has the opportunity to interact with my work in an intimate way.  For instance, the audience is drawn into find these references provocative and they offer me an opportunity to understand our own growth and decay.  This work conjures the past, present and future in order to invoke the contemplation of our existence.

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