My textile sculptures explore what gives us the strength to endure and transform—physically and metaphorically. Each piece reflects on how individuals and communities adapt to shifting environments, identities, and inner landscapes. This work is rooted in personal experience: years of relocation, reinvention, and navigating borders—geographic, cultural, and emotional. Themes of resilience and belonging emerge from my lived tension of not fully fitting in, and the ongoing effort to claim space as a Latine, a mother, an instructor, and an artist.
I use four elemental motifs—campfires, books, cartographies, and salmon—to create a symbolic language of survival. Campfires embody destruction and renewal; books hold memory and fragility; cartographies map both physical and cultural orientation; salmon represent return, movement, and transformation. Through these forms, I weave personal narrative with broader questions of displacement, identity, and cultural memory—inviting reflection on what we carry, rebuild, and hold onto despite the currents of change.
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