I'm a Puerto Rican artist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I studied fine arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Delaware.
I use a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, fibre sculpture and installation.
Through my work, I explore themes of memory, identity, and the continuity – physical and spiritual – that exists through generations of women. I reflect on how legacies of work, strength, creativity, dignity and resistance live on, against all odds, through language, stories, food, crafts, music and dance. I recognize the traces of my mixed ancestry in my body, my skin, my mother’s customs, my grandmother’s sayings…
By using my body as a source for my images or casting its shape, I reflect upon my connection to Nature and its cycles of decay and regeneration.
I'm also interested in the close association of cloth and the female body. Traditionally, women's creativity found a means of expression through clothes and crafts, so I choose to incorporate fabric and fibres in my explorations of a feminine artistic language. I believe that the dual fragility and strength of textiles adequately mirrors women's physical vulnerability and our amazing inner strength.
