ARTIST STATEMENT
In my own words.
Remembering, for me, is a form of healing.
I make art to find my way back: to a body, a place, and a self I lost when I left Ecuador at fifteen.
Mixed heritage means living between things: several countries, several versions of belonging, none quite whole on its own. My practice is how I close that distance. Each piece is an act of return, to memory, to music, to the textures of a childhood that became distant the moment I left it.
I paint what I remember, because memory is the only way back to a place I can no longer simply visit. Photographs, half-recalled songs, the feel of certain fabrics. These become the raw material. Over time the work has grown outward from painting into textile, installation, and performance, each medium a different way of asking the same question: where do I belong, and to whom?
STUDIES & BEGINNINGS
The early work behind the words.
This isn’t only a story about heritage. It’s about coming home to my own mind and body after decades of not knowing how. Years of therapy and art-making have taught me that peace isn’t found by resolving the question of belonging. It’s found by staying with it, honestly, again and again. My work doesn’t offer a tidy answer. It offers the practice of asking.
I make art because I need to remember, and because remembering, for me, is a form of healing. If you’ve ever felt caught between places, cultures, or versions of yourself, I hope this work meets you somewhere in that in-between.