Artist Statement

My practice explores the transversal interconnections between collective, local, and universal experiences that transcend boundaries, centering empathy, care, and shared authorship as catalysts for transformative experiences. I examine black and Indigenous rituals of leisure as geo-choreographies — embodied knowledge systems that resist dominant cultures of labor and production while reclaiming public and natural spaces for healing, restoration, and collective responsibility.
By drawing from Eastern and Western philosophies, such as shinrin-yoku and the ancient Greek notions of scholé and otium, I aim to foster inclusion and access to nature as a civil right, especially in times of conflict over resources and public space. Through participatory and collaborative processes, my work challenges traditional notions of authorship, creating spaces of trust, solidarity, and belonging.
Projects like The Appearance of the Lotus Flowers invited viewers to reshape the installation by taking flowers home, transforming fear and isolation into communal action. Similarly, Fragile Intangibilities engaged first-generation migrants through shared storytelling, with silk-organza tents etched with their testimonies evoking hybrid identity, impermanence, and belonging.
Across my paintings and installations, symbolist imagery explores dualities: unity and multiplicity, organic and divisible, analog and digital. Figures merge with trees and mythological patterns, acting as living mirrors of interconnected worlds. This aesthetic approach recuperates sensibility from systems of capital and colonial epistemologies, grounding my practice in critical, creative, and speculative modalities to reimagine communal and ecological futures.