I am a multidisciplinary artist, a Peruvian adoptee raised in the Midwest and now based in Brooklyn, NY. My practice grows from the space of “in-between” - where memory, possibility, and multiplicity converge.  Guided by curiosity about identity, belonging, the mysterious workings of consciousness, I let these questions shape both my inner world and artistic expression.  What began as alchemy, a way to shape what I could not put into words, remains the ground where I experiment with form and reconnect with ancestry, the unconscious, and question the inherited stories that confine the self.

Adoption placed me at a threshold between cultures, certainties, and the stories of what might have been and what is. That threshold has become not only a circumstance but a perspective: identity is not fixed, but layered, fluid, and shifting. From a young age I carried a heightened awareness of life’s contingency - that any turn of fate could have placed me within another family, culture, and even more broadly, that any soul could just as easily have lived in any body, under any sky. This stirred a longing for the self beyond the physical, a search that continues to shape my practice and my life. In that ambiguity I learn to resist rigidity, hold contradictions, and imagine new ways of existing.

My work spans painting, clay, and mixed media.I am drawn to geometry, pattern, surrealism, and symbolism, guided by insights from dreams, altered and hypnagogic states, and practices of meditation and altered perception. I approach these not as dogma but as disciplined inquiry - ways of testing how consciousness, memory, and imagination take form. My perspective and practice are informed by both neuroscience and ancestral traditions of working with altered states. I see spirituality as filling the gaps where science cannot measure, and science as sharpening the language through which spirituality can be trusted. Even before reclaiming my roots as an adult, traces of them surfaced in my work, as if expression itself carried unconscious memory. These synchronicities showed me that making art is as much about remembering as about creating something new. I connect deeply with the Andean concept of Tinkuy - the convergence of opposing forces that generates new realities of being, where friction meets to create something new beyond both sides. My work braids my Peruvian lineage with my American upbringing, and the distance between them where I exist. This convergence also lives between my analytical mind and creative intuition, spiritual experiences and scientific sensibility, masculine and feminine. Through making and the practice of living creatively, I try to merge these many forces into a voice that is plural yet whole, positioned in the nuance that I seek and love.

Rooted in humanist values and driven by deep curiosity about consciousness, I value the inner life and the freedom it can hold: unraveling indoctrinated norms so more open, critical and compassionate ways of existing can emerge. For me, that freedom means surrendering to ambiguity and uncertainty - not as a weakness, but a vital condition for evolution. From the start, adoption positioned me right in the center of that ambiguity, which is what widened my perspective: teaching me to let go of norms, resist rigidity, challenge unconscious beliefs, and proclaim convergences that open new ways of being - individually and collectively. What at times can feel like a painful struggle with dissonance has also become a source of creative possibility. Adoption remains both a primal wound and an initiation into paradox, turning the “in-between” into my creative homeland: the hyphen, the living synapse between worlds and forces.

While my story is personal, it points toward something larger - the way ambiguity can open vision, expand empathy, and reveal the nuances of living together while holding multiple truths at once. To live inside contradiction and the undefined is to resist the ease of categories and binaries; to claim freedom where absolutes fail. Through my work, I hope to reach others who live at this same threshold, inviting them to refuse the illusion that they must be “more of this” or “less of that,” or reduce themselves and others to labels that only minimize. Wholeness does not come from erasing difference or closing gaps. It comes from recognizing that our partial selves: who we are, who we long to be, and the selves always coming into form - cannot be confined to a label, and because of that, it opens space for a fuller human, and a fuller humanity.