Creative Work Portfolio
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a multimedia visual artist, my work navigates the intricate intersection of environment, identity, and the shifting boundaries, both real and imagined that shape our psychological and cultural landscapes.Rooted in my experiences growing up in the southwestern border region and informed by my cultural anthropology background, I explore the interplay between place, language, and personal history through a fusion of traditional and emerging media, including painting, printmaking, projection video mapping, and sound.
At the core of my practice is an exploration of language, both visual and verbal as a mutable system of meaning-making. I construct compositions from a vast lexicon of images and symbols gathered over more than a decade, forming a decentered and unpredictable family of elements. My process embraces duplication, entropy, and recombination, allowing meaning to unfold organically, much like an unruly and ever-evolving ecosystem. Words and images function as recombinant structures, shifting and rearranging like atoms in a molecule, generating unexpected connections and disrupting fixed interpretations.
Engaging with theories of swarm intelligence, cybernetics, and classification systems, I challenge traditional structures of organization and identity formation. My works are immersive and participatory, often incorporating hidden layers of glow-in-the-dark imagery that reveal themselves under blacklight, inviting viewers to actively decode meaning. Color, sound, and motion-responsive elements further dissolve the boundary between observer and artwork, transforming the viewing experience into one of discovery and interaction.
Through this dynamic interplay of imagery, and sensory engagement, my work does not seek to summarize but to extend-offering a space where universal themes intersect with the deeply personal, and where order and chaos, structure and fluidity, exist in constant dialogue.