Green (555), 2020

0:46 seconds, video

Artist Statement

I’m a Latinx Sagittarius born in 1994 and raised on Long Island, NY.  I’ve been artistically inclined since childhood, a shy kid spending most of my time drawing portraits with pencil on computer paper.  I studied English briefly at CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, later moving on to study art at Suffolk County Community College where I drew and painted portraits and still lives primarily, focusing on realism, and then later exploring abstract mono-printing.  I received an Associate’s degree in visual art and am currently completing my BA in studio art at Stony Brook University with a concentration in drawing, painting, and printmaking.  I’ve been experimenting, however, with music, poetry, performance, social media as medium, divination using UNO cards, and with animation and video art.  My art began as a practice of realism but has evolved into an investigation of sorts after having a profound, beautiful, yet highly traumatic spiritual experience within the past two years.  Since then, I’ve found my purpose for art-making, but my art is currently in a developmental stage; I am still figuring out a language with which to communicate my ideas.  I take great interest in astrology, numerology, and divination.  I believe that our lives are simply a metaphor, our brains constructing what we know to be reality from the information our senses perceive.  I am invested in the idea that we are living in an organic simulation, an ancient chain reaction, that we are simply light possessing matter, learning how to flow through life like water down a stream.  I don’t believe in the idea of chaos, I believe that the universe has an order dictated by mathematics, that our lives follow a pattern, and when someone has a premonition (like I have in the past) or experiences a synchronicity, it is a glimpse into this divine pattern, seeing for a moment beyond the veil of our constructed reality.  My most significant artistic influences include Hilma af Klint, Ana Mendieta, Frida Kahlo, Allison Schulnik, and Dan Gilhooley, all of whose work have a distinct level of emotion and spirituality.  I am still learning and developing as an artist, taking inspiration from the signs and synchronicities I experience on a daily basis, experimenting with different media, trying to find a way to communicate my interpretation of reality with the world.