I am an artist from Mexico City based in Brussels, Belgium. I work with paper and wood, and make my works with natural paints and non-toxic coatings.

I am interested in texture and depth, and the ways in which the maker of a piece can create patterns to give the viewer a moment of reflection and peace. That’s one side of the coin, because I am also interested in art as a form of civil disobedience. If a piece can do both things at once —allow for reflection and peace and confront or challenge the viewer —then we are on to something.

Some of the works in my Armas Secretas collection (the circular pieces) are dedicated to individuals who have lost their lives fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights. Others are homages to lost worlds that have gone silent; worlds that were swallowed up or wiped out by the modern world.  

I use pencils in these pieces because a pencil is an elementary object to work with. The wood for these pencils comes from a people’s forestry project in Indonesia that is dedicated to planting Pulai trees in derelict rubber plantations or farmland. Farmers are paid to plant or preserve trees that had no previous economic value to them.