Artist Statement
 

As a LatinX artist, my studio practices arise from a western academic aesthetic, art history, and collective visual vocabulary throughout mediums. One in which the painted human figure, often white throughout history, is transformed into one unknown even to itself while its malformation captures the inner consciousness of contemporary generational struggles, and the undergoing of systematic differentiation. Through traditional academic studio techniques, a collective art pedagogy, and experimental studio practices, a symbiotic visual language of disempowered resistance illustrates humanity anew. The transmogrification of human anatomy into something malformed and unknown allows a depiction of a larger conversation of collective inequalities: a showing of a people’s history. Although often left invisible, the traces are no less real. My studio practice illuminates a pathway towards a universal visual language unbounded by systematized nationhood as a subversive disruption of its institutional setting within the arts. Throughout mediums and substrates, a symbiotic visual relationship of my experimental studio practice is explored.