Colouring Outside The Lines

My artistic practice reflects my identity, complexity and life story as an Indigenous Mexican, working-class migrant, queer artist, researcher and activist.

My work colours outside the lines and challenges the parameters of how we are expected to create, learn, live and belong. I create images of what resists erasure, stagnation and marginalisation, reclaiming visibility beyond dominant narratives and standards.

Maximal Resistance

My visual language is informed by maximal resistance. It is shaped by saturated colour, grain, texture and movement, reflecting realities and ways of seeing outside canonical parameters, as well as my own neurodivergent sensory experience.

My neurodivergence and mental health are not external diagnoses attached to my practice; they are part of how I function, perceive and create. They shape how I experience colour, texture, pattern, movement and detail, what draws my attention, and how I translate the world around me into images. Photography -art- gives me a way to channel that sensory complexity rather than hide or mask it.

It is all of these things at once: a personal aesthetic need, a life I have lived and learned, an expression of ancestral cultural identity, and an anti-colonial practice. I find beauty in grit, multiplicity, emotional intensity and lived experience, challenging Eurocentric ideals of restraint and uniformity.

Movement · Memorialisation · Reclamation

Through trains, journeys, gritty urban landscapes, water, and neglected and omitted places, I reclaim visibility, trace histories, memories and everyday details that might otherwise remain ignored. I do not photograph what I see, but what I feel… how I see it inside.

At the core of my practice is a belief in the vital role of art as a form of cultural resistance and healing.