My art work comprises predominantly pieces of female clothes suggesting people and plots to be unveiled. The dresses and wardrobes are not only the subject, but also the object of what is being represented in my work. They are by themselves, without a human figure inside them. Their shapes are the centerpiece of emotions and feelings that have been present in three important periods of my life: my birth and arrival to this world, my childhood and my adult life.
In my childhood as a girl, I was surrounded by prejudice, living in a system of beliefs and strict rules that I have learned and that controlled my life and have dramatically changed the original innocence of a girl and that have compelled or have tyrannized the need for me to be and being empowered. My adult life could have represented freedom from childhood rules, however I was trapped by the sense of duty, between guilt and restrictions.
In this context of thinking and reflection, I like to play in my work with innocence and perversity. Accordingly, I enjoy mixing in my paintings something corny and at the same time something disturbing, by including and adding flies, beetles, handwriting, trees, branches to the dresses, as a way of recreating the universe that is in my head since I was a girl and that I allow to come out as an adult.
The dresses that I portray are “places” , ties and horizons that women know and recognize so well. In my paintings, going through the drawings and configurations, I am able to observe myself, to honor my lineage, my ancestry as a woman and to recognize my own history , my family three in the female side of my family, remembering the women that are my ancestors, as a way of healing them and healing myself.
I recognize them as my origins, my roots, with the sense of belonging to them and really enjoy the family bonds with them.
All this process of creativity has helped me to the practice of my own portrait and I have learned to see myself, to recognize and look at me in the eyes of people. This conclusive experience, has helped me to see myself in other places and visions and opened my imagination to new perspectives and points of view. All this process has been a therapy for me, a real catharsis.
It is being said that art heals and save…therefore, I am saved!!.
