I am a community- based bilingual artist who makes contemplative work about personal slow moments, combining watercolor in new ways with various other 2D and 3D media and language. After years spent caring for my children and neglecting myself, I began making art in earnest in 2018.  My practice evolved from being solely focused on producing finished paintings to being a Working/Teaching/Activist Artist with a publicly- located studio and salón.  I am influenced by Franz Marc’s colors, Georgia O'Keefe’s smoothness and enlargement of detail, Frida Kahlo and Leonora Carrington’s fantasy and symbolism, and Maxfield Parrish’s use of light and storytelling.  My recent work is intuitive and leaning into abstraction with elements of floral and figure contours and pinstriping scrollwork.