This project explores questions of identity. A reflection of what makes each humyn experience unique. There is a part of ourselves that we never see, the part that is our nature, mostly only seen by others. Then individually we perform the part of who we think we are, the choices we make, the daily facade of who we aspire to be. Somewhere in between these two experiences is the whole of our identity, an infinitely fluid yin, and yang. Each of these animals can represent our humyn experience.

Water is fluid and free to be whatever it wants to be. I love using animals to represent fluid relationships.

I was reflecting on gender fluidity, at the same time working on artistic aesthetics. Thinking up characters that physically evolve in the same way our minds are capable of evolving. These hybrids live without limitations, never boxed into one thing, welcoming us to be like a goldfish, who can grow ostrich legs, and finally know what it feels like to run.

Misc. Sketches

I was born in Los Angeles California to migrant parents from Guatemala. I’ve grown up with an intersectional sense of belonging, I learned two languages almost simultaneously. Every chapter of my life is enlightened by both places. I have a relationship with plants and nature from my parents, I have a sense of community from my city. These works come from that constant evolving relationship of being from two places at once

After my dad passed away, I kept having dreams of a giant black wolf. Sometimes the wolf walks next to me other times I’m a small child on top of the wolf as it runs through a dreamscape. He’s strong, he’s whole, and we get to live in the best of dreams.