Visual arts
“The relationship between what we see and what we know is never clear. Every evening we see the sun setting. We know that the Earth is moving away from it. However, knowledge, explanation, never quite fit with vision.”
-John Berger
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The smell and the sound of colors
I've learned to gather a lot of references for each project and to fully immerse myself in the process. I truly merge with what I do; sometimes I realize that, subconsciously, I dress in the colors of the image I'm working on.
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Step into the unknowing
There was significant pressure to produce such a large body of work on a shipping deadline, with some pieces still drying as they left the studio. It required a lot of discipline and trust in my process.
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Between clouds and spirals
Taking self-portraits is a practice that began without me even realizing it, and one I've never shared until now. It's been a way for me to get to know myself, in my most vulnerable and even playful moments. It's like looking back and realizing all the lives I've lived.
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Greetings to the sun
I'm learning to trust my mistakes and incorporate them into my work. I try not to overthink while I draw and let myself be guided by my mood at that moment.
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Pontius Pilate vs. A Hot Day
While I was on the crane building the final piece, I made aesthetic decisions about it. I was thinking about how interesting it is that many contemporary artists make drawings and then have their pieces manufactured. I feel that very creative moments are lost during the production process.
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Misery has no patience
Lately I've been experiencing nostalgia as a latent emotion; before I thought it was a bad thing, but with time I understand that it's not all bad. I love remembering the past, my friends from design school, and those years.
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Expanding My Horizons
Analog photography is a back-and-forth of emotions and frustrations. Patience is the greatest virtue in this learning process. Through so many mistakes, you begin to understand more about how it works, and honestly, it’s such an enriching feeling—even though it can also be discouraging at times.
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Sleep Soundly
Working with paper and printed photographs is a continuous learning process. It develops my compositional skills, color sense, and creativity in general.
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Bygone Eras
I’ve always been obsessed with bygone eras — the cars, the fashion, the music, and the way we’ve evolved as a society. But more than anything, I’m drawn to architecture: the designs that were brought to life decades ago and that have, in many cases, been left almost entirely unchanged.
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These Days
I love the process: finding, collecting, cutting, deconstructing, selecting, recomposing, pasting… Over the years, I have used different media (painting, drawing, engraving, photogravure), and my personal conception of collage has been shaped at the intersection of all these practices.
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How Many Years Does January Last?
I’ve written a lot throughout this process, and many of those words revolve around the same idea: a sensitivity toward what is broken, old, worn, used, weathered, walked-through, felt. There’s a strong identification with everything that carries history, marks, and memory. I understand those who see beauty in that.
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Old scratch junction
I’ve been working primarily on my photographic woodblock pieces. They usually end up on mulberry paper, and sometimes on stretched raw calico. Recently, many of these works have featured images of orchestras and conductors, as well as frames from various video pieces.
