Artist Statement

My work investigates how alliance with the earth might be restored through cross-cultural exchange, the reclamation of ancestral and diasporic memory, and the reconfiguration of ritual as a living, adaptive practice. I engage the body and the land as interconnected sites of knowledge, attending to the ways memory is encoded somatically and spatially. Within this framework, fracture operates not solely as rupture, but as a generative site of reclamation—where diasporic memory is reassembled, reimagined, and made present through embodied practice.

Grounded in lived experience, my practice responds to the dissonance of inhabiting a sensual body shaped by histories of displacement and fragmentation. Making becomes a method of repair—a way to reconstitute relations between psyche, soma, and spirit. My engagement with Andean shamanic traditions informs this process, positioning the body not as an object of estrangement, but as a relational field through which one returns to the earth and to cosmologies of origin. Embodiment, in this sense, is both methodology and site: a process through which restoration, remembrance, and transformation unfold.

My work begins in meditation and extends into an interdisciplinary practice encompassing ceramic ceremonial objects, printmaking, mixed media collage, and earth-based rituals and offerings. These material and immaterial processes are informed by somatic, shamanic, and psychological frameworks, as well as decolonial approaches that challenge linear constructions of time. I am interested in how ritual can function as a technology of memory—one that activates nonlinear temporalities and facilitates reconnection across diasporic conditions.

Through this work, I seek to co-create spaces of encounter that foreground relationality, collective presence, and processes of healing. By weaving together material practice, ritual action, and embodied knowledge, my practice invites a reorientation toward the body as a site of knowing, the earth as a living archive, and fracture as a threshold through which new forms of connection and meaning can emerge.