When my artistic practice is at its best I journal every day.

Here is a quick pencil and pen drawing that I made after writing down many anxieties and fears. Reflecting on the subject of Uncertainty.

Below is the next version of the Uncertainty idea. I used acrylic paint, resin, and silver leaf on hand-made/hand-dyed paper.

I keep a record of my dreams and other artists’ work that impact me in all disciplines, from poetry or theatre or film to visual arts and anything in between. I use automatic writing, exquisite corpses, miscellaneous clippings and/or photos that I paste on the diary pages.

I make drawings, collages, and drawings of collages. To the left is a collage I made using a photo I took of a collectible figure.

The character on the left is a graphite and charcoal drawing on watercolour paper with a background made of acrylic paint (sky) and gouache (ground).

The egg, made of a piece of Japanese paper and contoured with water colour, is the one collage element in an overall collage-looking painting/drawing.

My interest in picking up fragments - broken and/or discarded antique figures in wood, porcelain, and other materials, and mixing them up with various found and/or hand made elements started in flea markets, bazaars, and the witches’ aisle of the Sonora Market in CDMX.

In 2005 a combination of a hurricane and poor storage conditions destroyed 5 Future Inhabitants. I was able to salvage the figures inside and keep them for many years until I proposed an artist in residence project to Hermes Gallery, where I spent time re-purposing and re-constructing these figures that I initially created by collaging various objects together, leading to an exhibition in 2016. It was full-circle moment.

Dactilopterus Lascertima 18 x 12 x 5 ½ cm. (left) that existed inside an altar piece, now lives freely attached to the wall by itself and the word Redux has now been added to its name.

Avis Terribilis Paradisi - now Eagle Woman - also came out of its box and now lives perched on a brass wire pedestal, sporting a new set of wings since the previous ones were eaten by mold.

For Eagle Woman I had to dig back to one of my earliest memories of growing up in México when I was taken to a traveling circus that featured outrageous characters. There was an eagle (probably a taxidermied turkey body) standing on a table, and she had a human head in full make-up, hair, and jewelry. I’ll never forget the talons in front of my face, or her perfume.

 - Eagle Woman! Why did you become the Eagle Woman???

 - For disobeying my parents.