About Me
Life between cultures
I was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and grew up between worlds. Migration shaped the way I see, listen, and create. When I first arrived in the United States without English, music and art became my language, rhythm, image, and feeling spoke where words could not. That way of understanding the world still lives at the center of my practice.
I am a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught musician, moving through sound, painting, photography, film, and sculpture. My work is about translation, turning memory into texture, emotion into form, silence into rhythm. Each piece is part of an ongoing search for who I am beneath the layers of culture, expectation, and experience.
Ancestry guides me. The women in my lineage are musicians, carriers of rhythm and intuition. Their presence lives in my relationship to music, ceremony, and creation. I am still a student, still listening, still finding meaning and purpose through the act of making.
Community is where this work belongs. I teach and share in schools, juvenile centers, colleges, and community spaces, offering creative practices that invite expression, curiosity, and play. Sometimes I teach techniques. Sometimes I simply hold space for people to breathe, to make, to feel, to be human together.
My practice also extends to the land. I am currently working with the Siekopai community in the Ecuadorian Amazon on a film project that supports cultural visibility and environmental awareness. Conservation, memory, and relationship to place are central to this work and to other projects exploring our responsibility to protect what sustains us.
I partner with educational and community NFO's including Cuesta Colleges, San Luis Obispo County Library, the Cambria Center for the Arts, the Beaver Brigade, turtle conservation initiatives, retreat communities, and juvenile centers.
Creative Work & Practice
- Writing and photography featured in .Raw Magazine, Cholla Needles, The Bunker SLO TMH
- Photography & art showcased at DTLA Art Night (2nd Anniversary Exhibition)
- Workshop facilitator at CCWC 2025: Looping Music & Weaving Poetry
Education & Ongoing Study
- Art studies at Cuesta College
- Lifelong practice rooted in craft, experimentation, and lived experience
Mediums & Current Projects
- 35mm photography
- Filmmaking
- Currently developing a documentary on life with the Siekopai community in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Collectives & Collaborative Work
- @Ancestraltreats
- @Nourishnymph
My experience
I started creating more when I moved here and didn’t speak English. Art and music became my first languages, a way to express, explore, and connect. I’ve always loved learning, and I try to make that process feel soothing and regenerative, not rushed. My work keeps circling back to that: learning and discovering ourselves through different forms of creation.
My vision
My work comes from a place of lightness and curiosity. I see the mind and body as separate but connected beings, each evolving at their own rhythm. Through my art, I explore the layers of identity,who we’ve been in past lives and the energies we still carry. It’s about unlocking what’s hidden and honoring how growth unfolds in its own time.