I am a multidisciplinary Peruvian-American artist. Adopted as a baby and raised in the Midwest, I am now based in Brooklyn, NY. My practice emerges from the space of “in-between” guided by an existential curiosity about identity, belonging, and the mystery of consciousness, forces that shape both my inner world and artistic expression. 

Adoption placed me at a threshold between cultures, certainties, and stories of what might have been and what is. From a young age I carried a heightened awareness of life’s contingency - that any turn of fate could have placed me within another family, another culture, another language on which I would have built an identity, and, more broadly, that any soul could just as similarly be born into any body, under any sky. While that  initial rupture remains a primal wound, over time it also became an existential awakening- widening my perspective and stirring a lifelong curiosity about the self beyond the physical, the ego and the identities we inherit and construct.

My work spans painting, clay, and mixed media. I am drawn to geometry, pattern, surrealism, and symbolism, guided by insights from dreams, hypnagogic and liminal states, meditation and altered perception practices. I treat these as open-ended inquiries into how consciousness, identity, memory, and imagination take form. In my process, creating is inseparable from the self: it is a way of watching oneself unfold, dissolve and reform through life’s transformations. Both neuroscience and ancestral traditions inform my perspective: spirituality fills the gaps where science cannot measure, and science gives structure to the framework through which spirituality can be trusted. Even before reclaiming my origins as an adult, traces of them surfaced in my work- reminding me that making is as much about remembering as it is about creating. I make space for what comes through, using art as a channel for the many facets of oneself, treating the act of making as both finding my identity and letting it go.

My practice and I are rooted deeply in the Andean concept of Tinkuy - the encounter and convergence of opposing forces that transform into new realities of being, and the wisdom of Quariwarmi, who embodies that union within one single being. Through this lens, my work braids together dualities: including my Peruvian lineage with an American upbringing, science with spirituality, the organic with geometric, the masculine with the feminine. I am drawn to the unresolved space between these forces - the ambiguity itself, where meaning is fluid and alive.

For me, freedom lies in meeting with uncertainty not as a threat but as an opening. The “in-between” has become my creative homeland: the hyphen, the living synapse between worlds, where identity is in continuous cycles between being dismantled and rebuilt.

While my story is personal, it points toward something larger - the way ambiguity can expand perspective, deepen empathy, and reveal life’s ability to hold multiple truths at once. To inhabit the undefined is to resist the ease of categories and binaries; to claim freedom where absolutes fail. I hope my work reaches others who live in this threshold, inviting them to refuse the illusion that they must be “more this” or “less of that,” and the conditioning that says they must fit into established definitions that minimize their essence. For me, freedom and wholeness are not found in certainty or in erasing gaps- it comes from making a home within uncertainty and the distance between, allowing it to open us to a fuller humanity.