My work explores the spiritual and material nature of interconnection, solidarity, and collective care. I seek to elevate what is tender and beautiful within what is broken, disconnected, in need of repair, reconnection, and wholeness. Over the last 13 years, I have deepened and expanded my artistic practice and my work for equity, justice, and belonging through connections to ancestry, mindfulness, embodiment, and spirituality.
I ground my work in my diasporic, American-Jewish-Venezuelan identity and ancestral Jewish traditions, Kabbalah and Mussar. These spiritual-ethical beliefs and practices teach us to metaphorically reconnect the scattered fragments of the vessel that shattered while trying to hold the infinite light: through acts of care, we help restore wholeness to the world. Tradition says the residue of infinite light coats even the most unrecognizable and far-flung fragments, holding within it the recipe for HaOlam HaBa, the world we imagine is possible.
The vibrant, consciously interdependent, and imperfect world I imagine is possible emerges from my ever-evolving collection of fragmented objects – ones I’ve found, been gifted, made, and embellished over twenty years. I work in a variety of forms, media, spaces, and places. Through my work, I wrestle with the yearning and contradictions of making the world whole, the plight of parts finding connection and dynamic balance in mutuality and reciprocity.
