Growing up as a first generation Mexican-American in a homogenous small town in Maine, I never found myself represented in the media or the world around me. As a teenager, I was exposed to a more eclectic and stylish world inside my mother’s fashion and design magazines. As I tore through them, I was inspired to create with those very pages to reveal what beauty and self identity meant to me. My work today still explores those ideas of femininity, heritage and identity through a psychedelic-rococo lens ⁠— a delicate balance of fragility and fortitude.