As a Chicano artist, my identity, culture, traditions, and geographic background are integral in my art. For numerous artists and I these experiences, our cultural hybridity, become a foundation in our artwork, addressing the distinctions between the worlds we experience or ways that we combine them to form a new outlook of our identity.
I make art that merges abstraction and realism. My work combines flat and cubical space to form new ambiguous spaces. I combine vertical and horizontal elements to produce a solid, confident, and orderly sense of structure. This allows me to juxtapose and superimpose unlikely images, symbols, and words. These unexpected combinations encourage creative opportunities to bend meaning and warp a sense of time and place.
With my art, I can address the cultural differences I see, forming a new and more accurate picture of my personal and cultural identity.