How it all started

“I became interested in Art As a kid Because I loved wandering the streets of Caracas in Venezuela and looking at the street art and the graffitti, art museums and galleries. I felt that the city was very alive with real people and anything was possible”

I am a mestizo artist. My ancestors were indegenous and European. I was born In Colombia and raised in Venezuela where the majority of the people are of mixed ethnicity. Art surrounded me while in the streets of Caracas and Maracay ,after dropping off school at age 12 left me with lots of space and time to explore and learn from artists in the community , gallery owners, public art museums and public libraries and the lovely beautiful teacher of the cloud forest of national park Henry Pittier in Maracay,Venezuela.

I went to University to study Fine Arts at the University of Los Andes and discovered more about the art in the Americas (Abya Ayala: name that the Inca civilization called the territory from Patagonia to Alaska ) and the European traditions. I have a passion to create and share the beauty through my art practice, enveloping my western art style education within my Mestizo heritage.

My intention as a painter and muralist  is to bring  ancestral perspectives of the art of South American heritage.  My dream is to continue to create meaningful work, connecting fine art and public art.

My artwork looks to foster pictorial environments inspired by the Andean/ Amazonic and chibcha cosmovision. 

My work is informed by images and visions of abstract patterns known in traditional Inga and Kichwa  culture as "pintas" wich represents energy patterns in nature,  animals and plants. Color with different gradients and vibrancy is very important to my work because it represents different  layers of energy in all elements of life. In the cosmovision of my ancestors Art is identity, is a form of keeping the community healthy and a form of medicine itself, also a way of passing knowledge and information to younger generations. The rainbow colors are very important and carry deep meaning and emotional content for our people of the Americas. It symbolizes the complexities and beauty involved in our relationship to nature and the cosmos. 

My intention is also a continuous process that explores what is needed to be whole and healthy in colonized territories. I believe that in order to keep positive and growing there is also a necessity  to acknowledge the complexity of the history of the Americas to present times. 

In our industrialized civilization, the loss of connection with nature and ancestral wisdom is palpable.

  I believe our society is in a state of imbalance and uncertainty. I think our current geopolitical and historical situation is in need of indigenous perspectives. Creating art that honors and is informed by diverse ancestral knowledge will not only cultivate novel aesthetics; but also encourage a growing understanding of other cultures and the function of art in our communities.