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I came to charcoal the way most people come to the things that save them, not by choice, but by necessity. Growing up between Honduras and Maryland, raised by a widowed mother who carried our family across a different country and language, I discovered that making something with my hands was the only place where the weight of that displacement felt manageable.That's why cultural identity and pride are the root of my works, driving my focus toward Latino and Black figures.

"I create because I have no other choice. Because beauty, built from difficulty, is the most serious form of resistance I know."

There is a discipline I bring to drawing. The level I'm working on can only be built through compound consistency. I create because the medium demands it. I am creating things that will outlast me.