About
My work is rooted in memory — ancestral memory, cultural memory, and the kind of spiritual memory that refuses to be erased even when history tries to silence it. I was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents who arrived in the 1940s. Like many Boricua families, we lived in the projects, caught between worlds — our Indigenous, African, and Spanish heritage on one side, and a society that often denied or ignored who we were on the other.
In school, Spanish was forbidden. Silence was demanded. Art became my language. My imagination became my refuge. Books, drawing, and mythology gave me a place to breathe and discover who my people were beyond the textbooks that left us out.
As a child, I was told we descended from native ancestors — yet the world claimed they no longer existed. That absence in history sparked my journey. I searched for the truth of my culture, and in time, found other native Caribbean descendants and Native communities who welcomed me. Through ceremony and community, I began reconnecting with the Indigenous worldview my family always carried.
My art explores that spiritual journey — the myths, symbols, and ancestral presences that live beneath the surface of colonized history. I blend traditional influences with digital tools, creating works that appear like physical sacred objects but exist entirely in cyber-reality. To me, that digital space parallels the otherworld that shamans and spiritual practitioners have traveled since ancient times — a place outside linear time, where ancestors speak and memory lives.
My goal is not just to create images, but to open a doorway — for myself, for my people, and for anyone seeking a connection to ancestral knowledge and Indigenous spirit.