My creative path continues to expand with opportunities I could have never planned but feel destined in my life’s expression. Raised in Mexico, Northern Maine, and Chicago, coming to age in NYC, building a creative career in Los Angeles and currently embodying the rhythms of the seasons in the Pacific Northwest has seeded and nurtured the diverse outlets of my artistic life.

Textiles are of great fascination as their ability to hold energetic imprints and be talismans of memory. As we crawl our way out of the dumpster fire of fast fashion and over consumerism, our relationship and awareness to textiles is essential for survival.

Early and lifelong influences are my photographer grandmother who worked with Ansel Adams in Yosemite, my textile artist mother who has been expressing her love through quilts, crochet, embroidered, sewn and knitted creations my entire life, and my paternal grandfather I never met who escaped from prison in Spain to begin a fine linen textile business in Caracas Venezuela.

Life experiences which have shaped my practice and outlook include the nine months I spent in India making a film and performing a solo show, receiving a photography grant to return, traveling to South Africa with None on Record to document queer black South African artists and activists, a tour of rug makers in Oaxaca Mexico, and working and learning from natural dye guru Liz Spencer.

Some of the delights of the past few years include being brought deep into the Amazon Rainforest by non profit Mother’s of the Amazon to share my research with Huni Kuin master artisans on how to prepare their homegrown and handspun cotton for natural dyes using only jungle foraged materials, being publicly flogged in a performance art piece “The Good Little Progressive and Her Kinky Maga Dom”, sewing a gown together out of old journal entries and then ceremoniously ripping them off my body and lighting them on fire, playing a social worker on a Netflix’s show, and learning how to plasma cut metal.