MANIFESTO RSS

FEAR OR FANTASY I created this piece for the Fear or Fantasy exhibition curated by artist Asa Kennedy. The prompt, to create work touching on your fears or fantasies. I decided to play on both. I took this prompt as an opportunity to be experimental in my creative process, contemplating how vulnerable I wanted to be. This led me to turn towards my journals. I’ve kept journals for the past couple of years where I write my most vulnerable thoughts, emotions, insights, ideas, and drawings. A gateway into my psyche.   PROCESO Deciding to push my comfort zone, I searched...

I created this mold casting from a gift my mother brought home to me from El Salvador. I casted this object because it is a reminder of my roots. In the molding process, the original rattle was stripped of its paint and I could only faintly see where it was etched with the words ‘El Salvador’. It reminded me of what my parents went through to immigrate to the United States. Their homeland, stripped away, to survive they fled El Salvador in the early 80’s to escape the Salvadoran Civil War, financed by the United States. As they were trying...

  What is NUWAVE MAYAN? It's a term I created which I started to explore when the opportunity arose for me to share my art at The Lilley Museum (University of Nevada Reno). Through our collaboration, I created an artistic intervention aimed at The Lilley's permanent collection display. This gave me the chance to use my voice and use this platform to speak on important social issues that matter to me. You can read the full talk I gave which explains what NuWave Mayan is and gives insight on the piece created for the intervention with the Lilley's Untitled Keith Haring...

Symbols have been used since ancient times and are still used today to convey messages through a visual language. I started delving into the use of symbols and symbolism when creating my first symbol, but at the time I hadn’t quite realized what I would discover by experimenting with this notion and how it would aid and translate into the evolution of my work.   In the ongoing process of my growth as an artist I felt the need to express something more when signing my artwork. For that reason, I decided to experiment by combining certain letters of the...

The core in the release of self-expression whether we’re conscious of it or not is vulnerability, and through creation we can discover our true and essential invulnerability.   By letting go of resistance and fear in life and in creation we open ourselves up to explore new experiences which help us break out of our comfort zones, transcending us further into our self-growth, and connecting us to our most authentic selves. This also forges a link between the observer and my creative vision by encouraging the observer to use their imagination in generating their own visceral interpretation of what they...