13" x 19"

Cut out paper

I was born in Merida, Yucatan in 1984. In 2010, after receiving my Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, I decided to move to North Carolina. In 2014 I changed gears and started working as a self-taught professional artist participating in multiple exhibitions in diverse cultural centers. Currently, I find myself living and working in Merida, Yucatan, where I keep pursuing my art career.

The existing yet ignored relationship between nervous system, thought and emotion are the core of my work. Interest that surged from my own experience with chronic pain and the pathway to wholeness where I was involved searching to heal. The knowledge I had to acquire and the needed steps to recover made me understand the connection between mind and body. 

Another interest of mine is the visual similarities among organic structures such as cells, plant life, and marine creatures. It evokes the idea that everything was designed and made by the same hand. 

Because of its humble and versatile qualities paper is my preferred medium. Through the technique of paper cut I perceive the material as a symbol of transformation, it is as if looking someone loosing or removing the parts that are not serving to be able to reveal the true self.

About the Piece, 

In the United States of America there are over 3 million migrant and seasonal farm workers. They travel around the country serving as the backbone of the agricultural industry, yet they are among the most underserved populations in the United States.

Because farm workers are, in its majority, undocumented immigrants they go without medical insurance and most do not receive sick pay if they fall ill.

I chose to showcase Farm Workers because they are, and have been essential always, even before the pandemic. It is only now that the awareness and importance of their role in the country has taken more meaning. While reading about farm workers I learned that they are proud of what they do, they are strong, resilient, hard working people. The majority have left family behind in their country of origin and the motive to keep showing up to work in grueling conditions is precisely that their family counts on them to provide economic resources. Family is a core value for them and they put great emphasis in that.

In the piece you can see a hand picking nectarines, which is connected to an arm full of vines and roots that are sheltering the family of this person. They are also playing a part in nurturing those vines and roots, keeping the whole arm alive and moving to continue working no matter what. In the background there is a grid or I would say cage, acting as a symbol of feeling  trapped. It is well known that the majority of farm workers are undocumented and they leave their motherlands for a chance to have a dignified life. They flee to the United States only to face the fear of deportation every day…

 Creating this piece moved me to the core, the strength and capacity to adapt and mostly to smile and look forward for a better life inspires me. Humans are amazing!