My practice is rooted in the belief that art is a conversation between what we know and what we have yet to understand. I explore contrasts: figure and abstraction, ancient and contemporary, organic and geometric, permanence and impermanence. Through fragmentation, repetition, and recombination, I search for connections between seemingly separate elements and create spaces where new meanings can emerge.
I approach works as a visual remix, bringing together personal experience, cultural history, music, travel, and artistic traditions. Influences ranging from Cuban heritage, African sculpture, Mayan glyphs, modernist figuration, and artists who challenged the boundaries between representation and abstraction have shaped my understanding of how forms may convey ideas that extend beyond their original context.
Travel has expanded my awareness of how people express identity, memory, and belief through visual language. Encounters in China and India introduced me to new relationships between symbol, material, and ritual. These experiences became catalysts for reflection, inspiring drawings, paintings, sculptures, and constructed works that transform observation into personal interpretation.
Music continues to influence the rhythm and structure of my creative process. Works such as Jazzman Blues, Mingus, Madame Crescendo, and ReedPlayer reflect my fascination with improvisation, repetition, and the balance between structure and spontaneity. Like a musician shaping a composition, I arrange visual elements to create tension, harmony, and unexpected connections. Material is an essential collaborator in this exploration. Limestone, marble, wood, plaster, porcelain, paint, paper, and found objects each carry their own histories and possibilities. I am interested in how the weight of stone, the fragility of porcelain, the texture of wood, and the gesture of paint can influence perception and become part of the story being revealed.
Material is an essential collaborator in this exploration. Limestone, marble, wood, plaster, porcelain, paint, paper, and found objects each carry their own histories and possibilities. I am interested in how the weight of stone, the fragility of porcelain, the texture of wood, and the gesture of paint can influence perception and become part of the story being revealed.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to slow down, look closely, and question what we think we know. What changes when we see the familiar from a different angle? What hidden stories emerge when forms are broken apart and reconstructed?
You are invited to explore these works as evolving landscapes of form and possibility, where fragments become connections, contrasts become harmony, and familiar shapes reveal unexpected narratives. I encourage you to discover your own meaning within this ongoing exploration of transformation and to experience what can emerge when forms are taken apart, displaced, and brought together again.