My work explores strength, struggle, and identity through painting, connecting personal and ancestral experience with questions about power, history, and our place in the universe. Working primarily in oil, I use figurative and symbolic imagery, layered surfaces, gesture, to examine inequality, displacement, survival, and collective resistance. My experience as the child of Salvadoran immigrants who fled civil war informs this practice, particularly my attention to the human consequences of poverty, racism, and violence. 

I organize my work around three interconnected areas: Activism, Academia, and Ancestry. Activism addresses systems of oppression and the people who challenge them. Academia reflects my interest in mathematics, physics, and the pursuit of knowledge. Ancestry explores cultural inheritance and the distance I have felt from my Salvadoran roots as the first person in my family born in the United States. Together, these areas allow me to move between social realities, scientific inquiry, and ancestral memory. I approach these sources as starting points for visual exploration, asking how ideas in these areas can inform the way we understand human experience. 

I approach the painted surface as both an image and a record of change, where my accumulated marks and revisions give form to tension, uncertainty, and resilience. My practice also extends into sculpture, murals, and scenic work, allowing these concerns to move beyond the canvas. Across these forms, I seek to connect individual experience with larger histories while making space for reflection, resistance, and transformation.