Professional Artist Statement
I’m a 20-year-old illustrator and BFA junior, and for as long as I can remember, art has been my way of making sense of the world. Growing up as a second-generation Dominican immigrant and a total "cable TV kid," I’ve always been obsessed with how stories—especially the sci-fi and supernatural ones I loved as a kid—can transform reality. To me, art is a bridge between the internal landscape of my memories and the physical world we live in. My work focuses on that intersection of the mundane and the mystical, taking the domestic, everyday things, we all know and turning them into something otherworldly.
Visually, my practice is a mix of structured world-building or characters and expressive color/patterns. I’m constantly pulling from a huge toolkit of influences, from the staccato brushwork of American Impressionism to the flat, pop-surrealist vibes of contemporary illustration. Whether I’m working on an abstract color study or a character piece where spirits and nature collide, I want the viewer to feel the "pulse" behind the image. I lean into intense, calculated palettes and impasto-inspired textures to create a sense of movement that feels both grand and intimate as well as color blocking.
Ultimately, I’m trying to recreate that same sense of wonder and escape I found in art when I was younger. I want to build immersive worlds where the ordinary feels divine, allowing people to rediscover a bit of magic within the familiar. By blending my own personal history with mythic exploration, I’m working to bridge the gap between our lived reality and the "unseen" world, making the invisible felt through everything I create.
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