I’m Rocha, an emerging artist born in México, now living in Singapore.
I’m a self-taught artist, focused on creating art using different media full time from four years ago after I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I find my self experimenting continuously with all the resources I have and a limited space - but still I feel the need to keep creating new things or working in different projects at the same time.
I use acrylic paint, photography and hand embroidery as physical media but I also enjoy to work with digital art, creating patterns with my own paintings and my photography.
The use of physical media like paint allows me to have a dialogue within, during the process. But in all the media colours are the most important aspect of my work. Colours converse with each other till their own personalities are mixed to become a new and exciting world for the senses.
I enjoy creating abstract images. I believe that nature is already beautiful and perfect in itself, yet it can still be magically recreated through the use of photography. I use nature as a resource and nature's continuous change as inspiration.
I am inspired by the subconscious and the reflection on it as part of the creative process and the oneiric world. How we are influenced by our experiences in the process of altering, modifying, changing and creating.
I like to create and to see what is yet to be created and to be seen.
I make art to advocate for change, which always happens accompanied by a process of restructuring - especially when you are surrounded by an unfamiliar environment that puts into question your identity, your beliefs and your individualism. And that is why I enjoy working on different projects at the same time using different or same materials, move my self out of my comfort zone, even if it takes longer; one always feeds the other.
I think art is about resilience. Art is a way to represent who we are as evolved beings.
Art for me is the way life is - a slow process of change, work and special attention to details. I believe that in the details lie the essence.
During this stage of my life and the process I have been living, I noticed that even the fact of not using my mother tongue anymore was a reason to feel lost as to who I am, how I communicate and how I express myself.
So in the lack of my mother tongue, art became my language and my way back to my self. Looking for elements that remind me of the familiar like embroidery, symbols or shapes in something as monotonous and simple like the cross stitch and thread.
Crafts, dancing and music has been the way to keep in continue contact with myself and essential knowledge of my identity as individual.
