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.

My circular works 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.  

Using a chisel over a massive block of wood, one could carve out a bas-relief or high relief sculpture of an undulating landscape or an abstract layered texture. Alternatively, the block of wood could be made up of thousands of pieces and these could be arranged or wire-framed into a three-dimensional model of the non-figurative sculpture. It would be an attempt to model or sculpt from the ground up, without the benefit of digital renditions or automated machine tools.    

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I use pencils in my circular 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.