What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?
Last week I took a silver jewelry workshop and loved it. Photographically speaking, I want to keep exploring fashion, portraiture, people, and identity. What’s most constant, though, is that I carry my point-and-shoot camera, on trips with family, friends, or partners, photographing the everyday and whatever catches my eye.
What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on them?
Photographs are like freezing a moment. For me, that’s the most beautiful thing about life: you never return to that exact moment twice, but through a photograph you can get close to the feeling you experienced then.
When it comes to portraits, I feel it’s important to connect and to create a comfortable, playful space.
What words, ideas or emotions were going through your head?
Intuition, bias, memory, details, nature.
Were there any conversations, movies, music, or books that made their way into that work?
I read The Vegetarian. I couldn’t read it straight through because it frustrated me and I had to pause. I watched Nana. I listened to songs by Paloma Mami.
What's been the most difficult thing you've faced recently in your creative process?
Reconnecting with myself after a year marked by several losses and periods of mourning. Reconnecting with my self-esteem and my originality, without judging myself, without being pretentious, and without trying to belong to places that don’t feel like me.s
What is your favorite restaurant and what do you recommend we order?
I think my favorite restaurant right now is Chui. I recommend the avocado with kimchi and the mushroom rice. But without a doubt, nothing beats a good garnacha or a roasted corn from the Mercado Jamaica.
If your life were a movie this month, what would it be called and who would write the soundtrack?
It would be called something like “There is no room for nostalgia this january.” I’d love the soundtrack to be by Willie Colón, with the vibe of the song “Oh, what could it be?”.
Recommend one or more artists you follow who inspire you, and tell us what you like most about their work or their way of working.
Lately I’ve been listening to Alanis Yuki, an emerging Mexican artist with a lot of flow. I love the clothing brand springtimewishes, made by women, because it’s very dreamy. Jewelry by Relic of the East, and sculptures and jewelry by Manuela Riestra. I love how they turn sculpture into jewelry. In photography or audiovisual work, Sam Youkilis. The way he portrays the everyday always relaxes and inspires me.
Mexico City (2000). From an early age, she engaged with the visual arts, especially photography. Her work explores self-portraiture and the surreal as a starting point for creating imaginaries, as well as fashion. Inspired by themes such as time, love, death, sensuality, femininity, and nature, she has developed a series of personal projects.