about 

My work is rooted in body and heritage: both bodies of flesh and bodies of land, where I explore identity lived through navigating chronic illness, mental health, and ancestry— in the textures, colors, and visual traditions that shaped how I first understood beauty, language, and meaning. It is deeply autobiographical work.

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Figures are at the center of this exploration. I return to the human form because that is where emotional truth lives most honestly — and because the body has always been a subject I cannot distance myself from. I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and endometriosis, and living with chronic pain and unpredictable mobility has profoundly shaped my relationship to figuration. The body is not a neutral vessel in my work. It is the whole subject.

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I build my paintings in layers with charcoal, acrylic, sand, oil stick and impasto, letting surfaces accumulate weight and complexity the way memory does. My newer, larger works move toward more abstracted emotional landscapes, where fragmented symbols and surreal imagery drift through the background like half-remembered dreams. Grief runs through these pieces alongside longing, searching, and the strange persistence of what we cannot let go of.

The first work in this series, en mis sueños nos encontraremos (salgo a buscarte), takes its name from that feeling — the reaching toward someone just out of reach.

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I am also an emergency room nurse, and I have come to understand that both parts of my life are asking the same question: how do we hold what people carry? I have never experienced them as separate practices. For me, they have always been one.