As a Colombian my work is heavily influenced by the concept of home. Frequently I ask myself, What does it mean to feel at home when you’ve left your land behind? How do you remain Colombian when separated from your culture? And more importantly how do you keep precious family close?

These questions are often accompanied with feelings of displacement, and to remedy that I look to the natural world, not just as a muse but also as a steadying connection back to my culture. Nature does not doubt its roots, nor its mother land. It knows exactly where it came from. In this same way, the natural world encompasses, collides, and converges with the human experience.  

Just as the subject connects me back to my home so too does the material. Clay, in its barest essence is a medium of the land, a connection to where others have been as well as a grounding element to where we are right now. Other materials used also tie back to the concept of what is precious, including goldleaf, a traditional medium of my heritage, and soils from different locations. As material and concept unite, I hope to bridge the gap between home and foreign and nature and human.