I am an international contemporary artist living and working in California and in Chapala, Mexico. I am multi-cultural and multi-lingual. I come from a long lineage of immigrants and refugees and am a citizen of four countries across three continents.
The sculptures I made from the early 1990’s till 2017, were aimed to raise the consciousness about ‘the other’, the immigrant, the refugee. With these pieces I was both finding my identity and speaking for my ancestors.
By 2017, though, I wanted my art to address my beliefs about all of humanity. The wonderful cultures I lived in taught me that our similarities as humans are far greater than our wonderful differences. These similarities are fundamental and belong to One People. By holding the possibility that the division of humanity into ‘sub-races’ is a man-made fabrication, we can look at ourselves with new eyes grasping the notion that we are one race. This belief drove me to create the project InBodied Light. First Beings were created in 2018.
