Works on Paper
Together. paint and mixed media on paper become fertile ground for experimentation, memory, and intimate observation. Working with gouache, watercolor, acrylic, embroidery, and found materials, I explore how landscapes, botanical forms, and cultural references can hold personal and collective histories. Though modest in scale, these works invite close looking, where each mark and stitch becomes part of a larger conversation about belonging, place, and transformation.
Elsewhere, the Weather Changed
The four seasons can feel like a foreign concept when you grow up in a tropical climate. In these works, I return to the hibiscus, a flower deeply familiar to the landscapes of my childhood, to reflect on my experience of encountering the four seasons later in life. The flower anchors each composition while color becomes the language through which the seasons shift.
Seen from behind, the hibiscus is surrounded by fragments of its petals that begin to resemble islands, territories, or pieces of an imagined map. Gold embroidery traces their edges, bringing together landscape, memory, and place. The series considers how we understand unfamiliar places through what we already know, allowing one climate to be understood through the memory of another.
Remember the Future
Third Iteration
This body of work continues my meditation on memory, inheritance, and the ways we carry time within us.
The Lenca vase, for me, is both container and witness. It holds the weight of daily life, ritual, land, and lineage. Its surface, often marked and imperfect, mirrors the way memory behaves. It is layered, textured, and resistant to erasure, existing as a quiet record of touch and continuity.
While these forms are deeply tied to my Honduran lineage, the questions they hold extend beyond a single place. We all come from somewhere, carrying fragments, traditions, and stories that shape how we move through the world. Even if this specific history is not yours, the act of remembering and piecing together what has been passed down or lost is something many of us share.
Paper Quilts: Stitched Geometries
Paper Quilts brings together painting, embroidery, and textile to explore connection, memory, and possibility. Across the series, watercolor, gouache, fabric, and hand-stitched thread create compositions where color, pattern, and geometric forms move between structure and intuition.
Inspired by the communal language of quilt-making, the works consider how separate elements can be joined, layered, and transformed into something larger. Circles and recurring geometric forms suggest continuity and interconnectedness, while stitching becomes both a physical and symbolic act of binding and mending.
The series imagines these assembled forms as small architectures of possibility, shaped through care, interdependence, and the continuous act of making and remaking.
