Every time I start a new piece it is like starting a new journey.
I feel limitless freedom to travel to other times and places. I go back to the Argentina of my youth, and the countries where I lived later in adulthood, to rediscover paths with new eyes and a more mature perspective in an honest search for equilibrium between my Latinx origins and my present as an immigrant.
My pieces can be read as maps of emotional landscapes. They are inspired by humanitarian crises, political and social issues, experiences I have been exposed to, and everything surrounding me.
Moved by what I see, feel, believe, and remember, I explore life’s rhythm, writing my own story and the story of others, painting what is happening in the world - all the beauty and all the horror.
When working on paper or canvas, I always start with a foundation of paint to build multiple levels of depth. I paint, scrape, and paint again, adding vitality and drama with layers over layers rich in texture and color. Forming geometric and organic figures, I cover, rebuild and reconstruct what I created before, giving birth to lines that will interact and travel through the surface.
In my work there is a dialogue of movement, stillness, silence, and noise that feed into each other, resulting in chaos for some of the pieces. In contrast, others are very calm, reflecting the essence of an inner force of my own state of mind during the creation process.
I am convinced that a piece is never really finished, that it can always continue evolving and changing, in the same way that human beings must change, evolve, and adapt, to keep moving forward.
To me the act of creating is associated with the search for answers, the possibility of understanding, and the chance of leaving a mark, because life is ephemeral and memories are fragile, and creating art is a way to grab them.