Pressing the Bruise is an evolving, multidisciplinary visual memoir that explores the complexities of my relationship with my biological father, Fernando. The project delves into the emotional landscapes of absence, myth, and reconciliation, addressing the impact of his absence on my life, my art, and my understanding of family and identity.

PLEASE BE ADVISED... this project includes images and text that reference guns, domestic violence and self harm. At 95, my grandfather took his own life. Whether it was pain, blindness, or the kind of loneliness that calcifies over years of isolation, I don’t know. What I do know is that I arrived at his home just after my parents had scraped his blood from the tile. SAY… is a meditation on presence and loss, on the way silence holds both love and cruelty.

In An Articulation of Dolls, I explore the human tendency toward emotional projection, examining how we attribute narratives and emotions to inanimate objects.

This series of black and white floral images moves beyond the botanical, transforming flowers and plants into symbols of resilience, separation, nurturing, and the eventual process of loss. Through stark contrasts and deliberate compositions, the work explores how life persists even in the most inhospitable conditions, how forces beyond our control shape existence, and how the instinct to protect, nurture, and connect intertwines with the inevitability of loss—a tension deeply familiar in the experience of parenthood.