Much of my work is Informed by my family’s agricultural history. Despite the loss
of access to ancestral lands through immigration, my family has cultivated the same plant life that is Indigenous to Michoacán in our garden. The Nopales, Corn, Aloe Vera, and Rose Bushes we now persistently grow here come into contact with wrought iron fence gates and window bars present in South Central Los Angeles and other immigrant communities.
Focusing domestic cultural artifacts, ceramic and clay objects play a significant role in my approach due to their historical functional and ritual use deeply embedded in Mexican homes. I reinvent the form of traditional vessels by exaggerating proportions, removing function and adding elements of the contemporary South Central Los Angeles
environment. This effort aims to reconsider how physical and cultural borders are
warped through im/migration.