About

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I’m a Tejano, neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist working across cyanotype, photography, projection, soft architecture, and performance. My work is shaped by rasquachismo—a resourceful, improvisational way of making rooted in working-class aesthetics and ancestral memory—and by Zapatista teachings around autonomy, tenderness, and collective presence.

I make my own tools, often from found or inherited materials, allowing the process itself to become a kind of ritual. Through layered image-making, text, and symbolic object, I explore the quiet tension between visibility and disappearance, identity and spirit, masking and emergence.

Ruby red grapefruit juice is a key material in my cyanotype process. It subtly alters the chemistry of the print—changing the tone of the blue in ways most wouldn’t recognize, but can feel. Its presence leaves behind a richness, a depth, a warmth. Areas untouched by it often feel dull by comparison, though the reason might remain unseen. For me, the juice carries the story of Toronja Sagrada—a personal myth tracing survival, sweetness, and transformation after violence. A living metaphor for somos semillas—we are seeds.

My installations often include hand-sewn fabric structures and symbolic objects like horseshoe nails or dyed textiles. Each piece is a site of rest, reflection, and re-encounter—a space where stillness holds power, and presence doesn’t require explanation. I’m interested in how tenderness becomes a survival strategy, and how the unseen parts of ourselves begin to take shape through repetition, pigment, and return.