My best memories of growing up in Latin America come from wondering landscapes that hover somewhere between the earthly and the supernatural. Though these moments were deeply formative, they resist existing as singular recollections. The liminal space of memory has softened it's edges, gradually fusing that period of my life together into a flowing sense of color. What remains is an ethereal, glowing atmosphere that echoes the suspended realities of Magical Realist literature and continues to surface throughout my artistic practice.

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As personal and meaningful as these experiences are to me, I believe they reflect something more universal. I see the landscape as a cultural identifier shaped by the collective experiences we share within natural spaces. There is a psychological significance, a sense of home, that the places that have been, in one way or another, sacred to each of us live on in the form of memory. It's a phenomenon similar to the poetry of abstraction. As details fade, reflection deepens. There is a spiritual impermanence within this process, an uncontrolled transformation you find in flowing water, or the weather.

 

I paint the transformational landscapes to reflect the way I experience them and to honor the colors, poetry, and biodiversity of my home country. Yet it is the urge to explore these psychic spaces that my work seeks to awaken within those who engage with it. By way of a repertoire of defined gestures that act as a lure into the realm of color-field abstraction, I hope to beckon each viewer across the threshold of the substrate into an atmosphere that, at its core, celebrates of the transcendental beauty found in the natural world around us. As if stepping over a hill into a mystic fog that both blends and dissolves spaces. Rather than acting as a compositional device, it emerges as the main attraction.

 

While my work may escape traditional definitions of landscape art, it parallels the atmospheric sensibilities of Impressionist approaches and Eastern perspectives that often inspire me. It conveys the wonder of an observable reality and presents a contemporary interpretation at Romantic aesthetics through an abstracted and expressive impulse.

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By using art as a proxy for shared experience, I invite viewers to take a hike with me through a vibrant and nuanced space that is intimately linked to the spontaneous joy of being lost. To venture off the trails toward the personal relationships they hold within their own memories of such suggested places, somewhere warm and inviting. I hope for this to be the kind of uniquely enjoyable experience that viewing art can provide. At its best, perhaps it will spark within some viewers a renewed reverence and empathy for the sublime natural world we all share a role in nurturing, at a time more important than ever.

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