Currently a junior at Carleton College with a studio art major. I was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Miami. I live with my mother and my younger brother and sister, and the rest of my family lives in different parts of Peru. I love biking and going mango picking around the city, dancing, ice skating, and people watching from my balcony.
I enjoy drawing and painting, and usually collage when I feel nostalgic. I have only recently started to work with clay, but it has become one of my favorite mediums to work with.
I have a tendency to make art about my relationship with my mother, and my connection to my family/culture and loved ones. As immigrants, my mother and I created a very special bond our first years in America, and the evolvement of that bond is something I’m interested in working through art making.
There’s also themes of motherhood, love in its different stages/forms, and self reflection that I am interested in making more work about.
I think of myself as a very nostalgic person, always thinking of the past, always attaching so much importance to memories that didn’t seem as monumental in the moment. I wish to remember as much as I possibly can. In my collages, I choose to organize photographs of my childhood and superimpose images of different years/places because that is how they live in my memory.
