Statement
I’ve lived a life of constant change, balancing the familiarity of the past and the uncertainty of the future. Growing up between Mexico and the United States, born to a Mormon father who migrated before my birth, I was deported at age 13, came out at 15, and was kicked out of my home at 19. My work wrestles with this ambivalence, creating a space of endless possibility – without borders, limits and dichotomies – embracing transformation and authenticity where one can be multiple things at the same time: an object and a person, real and fictitious, male and female, and all their intersections.
With an interdisciplinary practice, I use my personal experiences as a microcosm representing broader social, sexual, and political issues. As fragmented memory, my work is formed, constructed and reconstructed just as I have done over the years. It undergoes transformation through various methods like scanning, drawing, painting, cutting, rephotography, and the incorporation of written language, resulting in new, often fragmented compositions.