I create sculptures, installations, collages, and mixed media works that explore how people carry experiences through life. Using familiar objects as metaphor, I examine memory, identity, loss, resilience, hope, and the social and cultural forces that shape individual and collective experience.
My work often begins with ordinary materials such as suitcases and other found objects—items that exist at the intersection of personal history and collective experience. I frequently combine figurative sculpture with repurposed objects, creating unexpected relationships that invite viewers to consider how our lives are shaped by what we carry, inherit, protect, or leave behind. Through layering, juxtaposition, and reconstruction, I create new meanings that connect personal experience to broader questions of memory, belonging, and change. More recently, handmade paper has entered my practice as another expression of transformation, with fibers broken down and reformed into new structures and meanings.
I make art to better understand the complexities of being human. While my work emerges from personal observations, it is ultimately about experiences that connect us: choices made, histories inherited, responsibilities assumed, burdens carried, and possibilities discovered along the way.
My work speaks to people whose lives have been shaped by movement, migration, family history, and personal reinvention. In a place as culturally diverse as Los Angeles, these experiences cross generations and communities, influencing how identities are formed, traditions evolve, and stories are passed forward. I create spaces where viewers can reflect on what they carry from one place, chapter, or generation to the next and how those experiences shape their sense of self and belonging. Rooted in themes of memory, movement, and change, my work seeks to illuminate the shared human experiences that connect us across cultures, histories, and generations.