An artist statement

I grew up with boxes of photographs, writing and stories that made our family history tangible. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized how rare that continuity is.

Migration, instability, and time often scatter the physical evidence that allow people to narrate where they come from.

I create visual works that explore how personal history and collective systems intersect; migration, belonging, lineage, and the environments people inhabit. That perspective comes from lived experience across communities shaped by movement and adaptation.

As Latin American artists gain visibility and immigration returns to the center of policy debates, many are revisiting questions of inheritance and place. Public conversations tend to flatten these experiences into symbols or statistics. In private spaces, they live on through family objects, remembered traditions, and acts of preservation.

From an epistemic perspective, archives shape what can be known. When records survive, history can be narrated with specificity. When they do not, identity is reassembled from memory and imagination, or half truths.

Having access to these archival materials is both a privilege and a responsibility.