My functional and conceptual ceramic artwork is a visual, 3D response to my deeply-felt human experience. My inspirations come to me in dreams, awake or sleeping, and stem from many roots: my Chicano culture, my Catholic up-bringing, my ancestral wounds and power, our interconnectedness, nature, my PTSD and my journey of recognizing and settling into my Self (namely and for now).
The relationship I have built with clay over the last 16 years has allowed me a safe space to fail, succeed, grieve, explore, tune into my body and felt senses and get to meet new versions of myself again and again. I teach various formats of ceramic classes with the intention of creating an atmosphere that allows others to start to access that same space for themselves. My work is geared towards allowing people space to respond to external ideas and visuals so that they may meet other parts of themselves in these moments as well.