My multidisciplinary practice seeks to stitch memories together like a puzzle in order to convey my experience with diaspora and cultural identity. Aiming to capture the world of my youth and explore the intimate relationships within the subjects of the work, I reframe my family's memories of Venezuela and highlight themes of gender, faith, identity, and iconography within Latinidad.
Combining traditional and new age mediums acts as a mechanism to make sense of cultural identity, idolatry, and connection in the context of my life. The repetitive practices performed in the creation of art mirror the repetition and blind devotion often found in unfounded religious worship. Ritual practice and belief passed down through several generations is echoed in the repetition of each tedious process performed while weaving, printmaking, sculpting, and animating. These practices complement each other and communicate how the inheritance of idolatry and sacrifice influences one’s expression of devotion through personal acts of faith and ritual as we come into our own.