LA007 El Corazon

(Mixed media on handmade paper)

Words taken from Loteria (Mexican bingo), the translation is “Don’t miss me, heart, for I will return in a truck.”

LA006 First and Last

(Mixed media on handmade paper)

Alpha and Omega. Lemon and Orange. Beginning and End.

LA005 On a Delay

(Mixed media on handmade paper)

I’ve been feeling like there’s something in motion and potentially chaotic in process, that I’m going to find the answer I’ve been searching for. While the question runs over and over in my head, this piece represents the restlessness of the wait.

LA004 Day Alone

(Mixed media on handmade paper)

I was alone in the studio when I made this...

LA003 The One

(Mixed media on handmade paper, embroidery thread)

The symbols of “Sun” and “Moon” in Chinese are incorporated into the image. They are also symbols associated with Our Lady of Guadalupe.

LA002 Seventeen

(media on handmade paper, embroidery thread)

The number represents Cosmos’ tendency to karmic liberation. It symbolizes the junction between the material world and the spiritual world, and is the rule of Balance.

LA001 Lady Aeon

(Mixed media on handmade paper)

Through the Chicago Artists' Coalition, I have been awarded a works on paper residency at the Merchandise Mart. It is my goal to begin and complete this new works on/with paper series during these 6 months.

This was the first of the series, inspired after one late night at work, and created the same day, Aeon: "eternity", "heaven", "the one", “Kalpa”… This first piece of the series of the same title dedicated to both Guan Yin (the Goddess of Mercy) and Our Lady of Guadalupe is about grace, mysteries, faith, hope, virtue, and the journey/process of love.