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My work begins with a personal search: a way of understanding what I carry within and giving it form. Through painting, drawing, small-scale sculpture, and jewelry, I create images and objects shaped by tension—between beauty and pain, desire and loss, fragility and endurance. I see art as an intimate and transformative practice, one that can speak to both the body and the spirit.

 

I grew up surrounded by spirituality, and that has deeply shaped the way I understand making. From an early age, I came to feel that objects can hold energy, memory, and emotional weight. Because of that, I do not think of an artwork as a simple object, but as a presence: a place where inner life becomes visible and where material can carry what cannot be fully explained in words.

 

My practice is also informed by my experience as a Cuban immigrant, a gay man, and a professional art restorer. Restoration has taught me to look closely at vulnerability, damage, and repair. It has shown me that fragility is not a weakness, but part of what makes something human—marked by time, survival, and resilience. That understanding moves through all of my work, including jewelry, which I approach as a form of small-scale sculpture charged by intimacy, touch, and the body.

 

I often return to emotional states that resist easy separation: pleasure and sorrow, tenderness and fear, surrender and strength. Even when the work moves through darkness, it is never only about despair. I am always searching for balance, relief, and the possibility that something broken can still become beautiful, present, and whole in a new way.

 

Ultimately, my work is about transformation. It is a way of turning emotion into form, fragility into presence, and lived experience into something that can be shared.