I envision myself as an artist and correspondent – a legman who carries back stories and situations confronted along the U.S.- Mexico border. My approach to material is experimental and incorporates drawing, painting, lithography, sculpture, collage, assemblage and installation. I use these as a powerful forum from which to investigate, address, and embody weighty subject–such as femicides, forced disappearances, persecution, unlawful imprisonment, torture, and other human rights abuses–beyond international borders.
My methods of investigation continually change and for the past couple of years I’ve been trying to understand how “participant observation” / ethnography can be used to depict the set of contingencies played upon specific groups.
Overall, I aim to induce a social collaborative experience with the viewer by referring to the relationship of the body to the object and the sense of exploitation or power. Ambitiously, I am trying to destabilize the border between artist, artwork, and audience—analogous to the socio-political border.