¡Todos somos todos y tú también! [We are all everyone, and you are too.]
Welded steel structure, chicken wire, 1000 zipties, newspaper, paper mache, 2 beach balls, acrylic paint, yarn, fabric, hot glue) 2026
This project centers on the idea that home is not fixed, but something carried, remembered, and continually reimagined. I am interested in how both personal and inherited memories shape our understanding of where we come from and how we situate ourselves in the world. Organic forms appear throughout the work as symbols of rootedness, migration, and growth. Through movement and process, I explore these themes of transformation. These elements act as quiet witnesses to histories of ancestral resilience. Softness operates as both an aesthetic and political strategy within my practice. I ask, “What makes a home feel safe?” Through tactile materials, layered forms, and immersive environments, I create spaces that invite intentional emotional presence. I critique the powers that displace and erase through positioning softness as a form of resistance against rigidity. Under these powers, my practice provides spaces for alternative methods of processing. The work becomes a world for radical, joyful belonging, one that honors hybridity, embraces multiplicity, and fosters community. I create an environment where collective histories coexist, offering viewers an opportunity to reflect on their own relationships to home and identity. It is also a space where the strange and unfamiliar parts of ourselves are not only accepted but held with care. The immigrant experience is both honored and critically examined, asking why difference is so often framed as otherness, or even as monstrous.