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Art Practice 2021
Our limbs perform so many tasks yet we rarely take a moment to recognize the inner workings that make these movements possible.
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2019
Acrylic tube, yarn, metal hardware, wood, epoxy resin
Western media creates unrealistic expectations of perfection in avocados. In this painting, I seek to challenge and redefine avocado beauty standards.
2016
Oil on canvas
This song is a unique take on John Coltrane’s ‘Impressions’ in terms of instrumentation, style, and genre.
Guitar recording with electronic drums and synths
A visual exploration of ZIP, a drug currently in development used to treat PTSD by directly erasing targeted memories.
2018
Mixed Media
This is a painting of me as a child, my mom, and my grandma at the beach. It symbolizes the treasure that is family and togetherness.
2022
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
16 wooden chairs, each with one leg severed, tap in syncopated rhythm, puncturing through a low droning electrical hum.
2023
Found and modified wooden chairs, custom steel hardware, dc motors, wires, solder, modified cast iron weights
This short film was submitted as part of my arts portfolio for my Stanford application
2021
Short Film
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
De-identified photograph taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
2015
Photograph
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
2017
Ink and print on wood
A ghostly woman draped in a silk shawl and pearls.
Charcoal
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
Abstract portrait that transcends the restrictions of the body and provides the opportunity for anyone of any background to identify with the piece.
Acrylic Paint on Wood
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
Environmental Photographs
A series of poems written exclusively with programming keywords. An investigation on language, audience, and dangerous English-centric thinking.
code poems
The tradition of monuments uplifts cishet white men through idealized, bodily depictions of men, but queerness transcends the restrictions of the body
Acrylic paint on canvas
Exploring the weary determination of an aged subject shouldering generational burdens. Experimented with earthier and darker tones, deconstruction, an
Oil Paint on Canvas
Photojournalistic exploration of the human impact of rhino poaching in South Africa – done in Prof Sue McConnell’s overseas seminar in Summer 2016.
Photographs