My practice revolves around forms of image-making: histories molded from images and images that are cast out of histories; languages imbedded within those processes and the very edges of their perception. My work interrogates such forms by distorting archival photographic and cinematic images through installations, sculptures, or within the picture plane itself. Distortion accomplishes a juncture of experiences for the viewer: transmitting the affect of my embodiment as a direct descendant of migration and diasporic lineage, and the intimate encounter of immigrant and diasporic written records (archives, documents, and histories).

Currently, I am a Chicago based artist. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations. I come from a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, and my practice refers back to a kind of hauntology; a failed phantom within the everyday produced by images and records.

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