I create layered and subtle sculptures and installations that center on the reconstruction and deconstruction of cultural belief systems within a contemporary culture. My sensibility and use of materials in my sculptures and installations, fragile and robust, especially in the gestures of the intertwining of domestic, natural, and industrial materials provide a spiritual and ritualistic element in relation to the themes I explore in my work such as cultural dualities, ideologies, home, migration, gender, and labor. I am interested in how the process of rediscovery and reconstruction of ideas and beliefs can become a channel of connectivity, healing, and a form of empowerment. My practice is informed by a wide range of references including pre-Columbian ancient artifacts, traditional art techniques such as textiles, pottery, notions of labor in rural and urban settings and Mayan ceremonial rituals. I choose domestic materials that reawaken the intentionality and become nonfunctional and give them sensibility, such as Fuerte como Ella / Strong Like Her, with steel wool no longer being used as a rough object to scrub but instead being elderly fragile hair, finding softness in the hardness and finding hardness in the softness. The colors in my work (inspired from Mayan ceremonies, colorful architecture in Central America and Mayan textiles) are a form of honoring the labor workers and making the invisible visible. The nude color pink is a color that will be seen in most of the works as well, I have chosen that color as a symbol of flesh and bones.