I am a multidisciplinary Peruvian-American artist. I was adopted as a baby, raised in the Midwest and am now based out of Brooklyn, NY. My practice emerges from the space of “in-between”- guided by an existential curiosity surrounding identity, belonging, and the mystery of consciousness- forces that shape both my inner world and artistic expression. 

Adoption placed me at a threshold between cultures, certainties, and stories of what might have been and what is. From a young age, I carried a heightened sensitivity to life’s contingency - that any turn of fate could have placed me in another family, another culture, another language through which I would have built an identity, and more broadly, that any soul could just as easily be born into any body and circumstance. While that initial rupture remains a lasting primal wound, over time it also became an existential awakening, widening my perspective and stirring a lifelong curiosity about the self beyond the physical, the ego, the identities we inherit and construct.

My work spans painting, clay, and mixed media. I’m drawn to geometry, pattern, surrealism, and symbolism, guided by insights from dreams, hypnagogic and liminal states, meditation, and altered perception practices. In my process, creating is inseparable from the self: a way of watching identity unfold, dissolve, and reform. I’m interested in consciousness as both mystery and method. Scientific language can offer structure, but it doesn’t contain the whole of human experience. I’m drawn to what sits just outside consensus, where intuition, dream logic, and older traditions hold realities modern culture often struggles to name. Even before reconnecting with my origins as an adult, traces surfaced in my work, reminding me that making is as much about remembering as it is about creating. I try to work like a receiver, making room for what arrives before language: ancestral memories, the subconscious, curiosity, and the quiet intelligence of materials. Through this practice, I come to know identity more clearly, and then learn to let it go.

My practice is shaped by Andean ideas I’m continuing to learn and live into, especially Tinkuy: the encounter of opposing energies or forces that may generate new realities of being, and Salka: the wild and undomesticated as a living intelligence. For me, salka names the desire to be less separate from the world, to move with its rhythms, and to find freedom there. Not to escape being human, but to remember I’m nature too, and to meet the wild with reciprocity. Through this lens, my work braids Peruvian lineage with American upbringing, the organic and the geometric, and the masculine and the feminine. I’m drawn to the unresolved space between these forces - the ambiguity itself, where meaning is fluid and alive.

For me, freedom lies in meeting uncertainty not as a threat but as an opening. The “in-between” has become my creative homeland: the hyphen, the living synapse between worlds, where identity moves in cycles of dismantling and rebuilding. While my story is personal, it points toward something larger: how ambiguity can expand perspective, deepen empathy, and hold multiple truths at once. To inhabit the undefined is to resist the ease of categories and binaries, to claim freedom where absolutes fail. I hope my work reaches others who live at this threshold, inviting them to refuse the illusion that they must be “more this” or “less of that,” or fit into definitions that minimize them. For me, freedom and wholeness aren’t found in certainty or in erasing gaps, but in making a home within them, widening what it means to be human, with more acceptance for ourselves and each other.