ARTIST STATEMENT

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My artwork, writing, and performances are rooted in experiences with identity, history, and generational storytelling of home and belonging. I explore the complexities of race, class, labor, geography, government, and economics. The influences and experiences of family members who worked on Texas land as migrant farmers and longshoremen along the Gulf Coast are the abstract narratives that inform my material choices. I use conventional domestic materials such as thread, needles, scissors, and commercial materials used in farming, like polypropylene sacking, burlap, and twist ties, to create materially complex artworks. I draw, paint, sew, weave, and embroider textiles into the strands of expansive personal and cultural narratives. My Mexican-American experiences, intergenerational conversations, familial bonds, home, poetry, and motherhood deepen this expression.