Emotional Support
Mixed media, Xanax created by the artist using resin and pigments
20”W x 19”H x 13”L
In this work I invite you to contemplate society's relationship with medication, through a lens of whimsy and satire. This thought-provoking piece features Xanax pills playfully arranged in a mosaic and patterns.
With a touch of irreverent humor, the artwork challenges our perceptions of prescription medication. The composition is a riotous dance of shapes and white colors, defying the sterile and clinical associations often linked to pharmaceuticals. The playful arrangement of pills exudes an almost childlike wonder, urging us to reevaluate our attitudes towards mental health and treatment as well as questioning the role of medication in our pursuit of happiness and mental well-being.
The “Emotional Support Dog ” is a visual commentary on a society that seeks solace in medication, often in search of a quick fix for life's complexities. It is a testament to the artist's ability to infuse serious topics with humor and wit, provoking a dialogue about the delicate balance between healing and hedonism.
Mixed media
36” x 48” x 4”
In this piece I explore the juxtaposition of everyday life and the joy of the season through the unexpected medium of aspirins and miniature characters. Each piece encapsulates the essence of spring, characterized by its vibrant and pastel colors, as well as the miniature figurines that personify the very essence of a joyful moment.
I invite viewers to explore these miniature worlds brimming with color, happiness, and the unbridled spirit of the season.
Sculpture
Mixed media
45” x 43” x 3 1/2”
2021
In a world marked by individuality and diversity, “Algeria” reminds us that beneath the surface, we all share a common existence on this planet. It emphasizes that, like these animal erasers, we may appear distinct, but in our shared space, we are, in essence, part of the same intricate and beautiful puzzle of life. This piece serves as a gentle reminder of the importance of recognizing and celebrating our common humanity while embracing the rich tapestry of differences that make our world truly unique.
Mixed media
36” x 48” x 4”
2022
Mixed media
40” x 27” x 4”
2021
Mixed media (toys)
45” x 36” x 3.5”
Japanese Puzzle erasers
34” diameter by 8” depth
Unique piece
2020
Mixed media
31 1/2” x 25 1/2” x 5 3/4”
unique piece
2020
Mixed media
20” x 20” x 4”
Unique piece
2020
Mixed media
18” x 18” x 4”
Unique piece
2020
In this site-specific installation “Noah’s Ark”, I talk about the relationship between Mother Nature and Human Beings. We mistakenly think about Mother nature as something that is outside of us, at our service and to control and take as we pleased.
Mother nature is in all of us. We are the oceans, the forest, the animals and they are within in us as well. We are all interrelated and part of a perfect system only unbalance by the inability to see us in the world around us, including in other humans as well. This social conception that we are separated from each other and from nature, has been the main challenge that the human race and all civilizations have faced.
My hope is that one day we’ll be able to see ourselves and all around us as one thing only. This will end harm, greed and many other miseries created by the human mind. Until then, we will have to learn one step at a time and expand our consciousness little by little. We will get there, I’m positive. When? When we are ready to.
This is an inner process that its results reflect outside not the other way around. We must cultivate our inner self first. We have wars, because there are wars in the heart of all of us. We have hate, because we don’t fully accept and love who we truly are. We fear others because we fear our own thoughts and self. This list can go on and on, almost endlessly. It all comes down to one goal to stop living our life through our mind and start living life through our hearts instead. The mind judges, labels situations and people, and sees the bad in other, but is incapable to recognize it in itself; therefore, divides us. The heart is the only part of us capable of experience compassion, love and our true nature of what we truly are as human beings.
This is a series of works inspired on reflecting the similarities that unite human beings rather than the apparent “differences” that divide us.
I truly believe that if we leave behind all our mental barriers, such us political orientations, religions, racial identification, and multiple other creations of our mind, we will blossom as humans being. Realizing that we aren’t that different from each other as we thought, we were and that most of our judgments against other are merely a reflection of our own shadows (Carl Young).
We live our lives experimenting the world through our minds rather than through our hearts. The mind judges what it sees, labeling people and situations, therefore it separates us from each other, making it easier to point our finger at others rather than look at ourselves.
I believe, the blossoming of a flower represents the beginning of life, a symbol of nature at its most harmonious state, a representation of love. This is the reason why I chose this form of nature for this series of works. Regardless of the combinations of colors and shapes, flower always exude beauty, an inner beauty that comes from the inside of its nature, a true beauty.
The choice of using animal erasers show the diversity that our beautiful world withholds. Through this combination of all kind animals coexisting harmoniously and exuding beauty. I express my beliefs that it is possible, that one day we will all be able to bloom, just like a flower in nature.
An imaginary land full of wonders and magic. That place that “Once upon a time…” we used to visit as kids though our stories and imagination. A place that we should all visit more often, specially as an adult. Like Mencious said “A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”
These are maps of imaginary lands and oceans, those who describe our wishes and fantasies. Each patch of color splashes the surface with movements and textures and like in an abstract painting, these patterns are guided by the emotions rather than rationalism.
The need of creating and abstract work from a figurative form (animal eraser), expresses the duality of reality and the ability inhabit in us of experiencing the world we believe we are in through our conditional perception of reality.
This series of works are related to “Blooming”. Using a figurative object such as erasers I aim to create an abstract form that for association represents to our consciousness a vision of a world. In this “world” there aren’t borders that limit us from each other. In this world, we are all together with a sense of freedom and harmony in which we express throughout the combination of colors we witness in nature. In these worlds, there is unity amongst all living creature of these planets. Nature and the people, becomes one, breaking the concept that Mother Nature is at the disposition and use for us humans, under our control. My goal is to end this feeling of entitlement that we have towards nature, so we can start seeing it as part of us rather than something outside ourselves.
As children, we relate to the world around us differently. Who hasn’t filled up a sink imagining to be an endless sea and play with little figures in this whimsical and unique world? We all did !
The medicine cabinet, a forbidden place with names we didn’t understand but filled up with colorful boxes that would become buildings of a city that sleeps while we are awake and awakes while we are asleep.
Every space in hour homes has its own role, magic was in every daily object that surround us. From the water bottles at the table that were control towers of an imaginary airport, to spoons that could catapult object far beyond the edge of the table, everything has endless possibilities through the eyes and perception of a child. Even candy through it color and textures not only made us smile, but also sometime even it becomes superhero’s food that would transform us in a strong caped character that would save the world or the kryptonite that would make us weak.
Thorough my work I tap into these forgotten emotions associated with the past that live in us, but sometimes forgotten. I’m not trying to create nostalgia in the viewer, but rather awake the ability still inhabit in us to bring that inner child out for a play. A new fresh experience trough the eye of our inner child that is in all of us and needs to go out and play more often, because sometimes he has forgotten how beautiful and fun life could be.
Photograph & sculpture
Sculpture
Mixed media
16” x 16” x 12”
Photograph & Sculpture
Photograph & sculpture
27" x 66" (photograph)
3 1/2" x 3" x 5" (sculpture)
Photograph & Sculpture
Leave the biscuit on the milk for too long and it will break!
No spoon on the table? The rescue divers have to get ready to dive into a teacup full of milk.
But wait a second! There’s a shark swimming in this teacup!
Like in all parodies of life there is always a bystander and in this case on a bicycle. Who has a lot of free time and spends his life putting his nose in everyone else’s business, but not much on his own.
Of course he will be in charge of spreading the news among the neighbors… he always does!.
Photograph & Sculpture
"True Love" is a piece that tells the story of our first love, the one we felt when we were a child. A love that has not been conditioned by speculations of any kind. A love that is only limited by our imagination and our heart. A love that cannot be contained nor has any barriers.
We feel shy to express it because we don't know how to do it. We ask our friends to let that special person know of our feelings. We write it on a paper airplane and send it flying across the classroom, hoping that it will land on the right table.
Pure and innocent would probably be the best words to describe that special feeling we only experience once in a lifetime, true love.
Photograph & sculpture
Photograph & sculpture
We all have dreams and wishes (balloons), I’m not sure what the difference between them are, maybe the colors. In this case, like in life, there is a exchange happening. Some dreams and whishes will stay with us for life and some will get deflated. But at the end, all of them together will make who we are. Sometimes by not getting what you want you end up getting what you truly need. Let’s make an effort and trust the process of life.
