ARTIST STATEMENT
My art practice concentrates on elements of memory and social-political aspects of Puerto Rico and the United States. I do so by recycling and intervening discarded materials from offices, artist studios, beaches, and construction sites among other spaces, and reusing other artworks as an analogy of the rhetoric and actions of politicians.
Using as a starting point the ways in which socio-political and cultural systems create structures (physical and psychological) to control the way we function, behave, and exist, I’m exploring notions about separation, segregation, and obstruction. Barricades, walls, and carelessly packed objects portray my feeling toward the social-political time we are living in.
I’m looking into ways of creating tools of relief. Operating from the psychological perspective that to heal, one must open, release, and confront, my works are cathartic objects. Meant to be an opportunity, for me to output what is bothering me and for some of the viewers of my works, to know they are not alone in what they are feeling. Each work I produce, after serving its objective of pointing out or presenting an issue is transformed into parts of a new object, with a new meaning.