My work centers on movement through time and space to heal personal and intergenerational trauma by re-remembering and reconnecting our relationship to the Earth, nonhuman relatives, and ancestors. l use my experience living at the cross-section of many identities and communities to reimagine and re-envision. My work starts with healing and reconnecting. I connect to my mother's womb by touching soil, molding clay, and working with natural fibers and dyes; together, we heal. From loosening soil in preparation for seeds to kneading clay, the grit touches my skin, her warm hands meet mine, and it is in this touch that I move from feelings of isolation to connection. In returning to the womb, I am reminded of our responsibility to travel in a way that does not exploit and devastate.  As the seeds grow, they remain connected, firmly rooted in our shared mother, and from them, I learn. It is through her blood flow that courses through them, feeds them, and protects them that they can produce medicines, pigments, and nectar. Through my art practice, I am reminded that her blood, oxygen, water, carbon, nitrogen, and calcium still flow within me. 

My pieces explore this relationship and my intersecting identities. I mold many pieces to hold water, fire, or seeds for ceremonies.  Other pieces represent a ceremonial action or are designed to be worn as protection and medicine. The work connects to Mesoamerican art and ties to many of my ancestors, who originated from Anáhuac. I work to incorporate duality designs to mirror my movement since traveling through this world as someone who identifies as gender-fluid, I often feel like a shapeshifter as I move through and between genders.  This duality can be seen in composition, detailing work, incorporating traditional symbols, and color choices. Each piece's creation is its own ceremony, and its ceremonial function centers the work on my healing and the healing of others.

Through my visual art practice, I work to heal; through writing, I explore how to transmit what I am learning and my healing to others. I hope to help us collectively re-remember and re-connect.  Through a collection of memoir and Chicanx Futurism Flash Fiction pieces, I attempt to weave a nonlinear narrative around personal and communal healing. I am working to build characters that experience the joys of life, process death, awaken soil, and listen to each other’s beating hearts while also confronting the loss of traditional knowledge, the raping of the earth, and internalized hatred for the self. Like me and many others, my characters must re-remember and re-connect. I hope to continue to explore new ways to use art to support individual and collective healing and how to build futures that are sustainable and grounded in respect. Additionally, I am working to find ways to make this process more interactive for the viewer/participant.