Painting
After college I decided to take a break from painting, not because I didn’t love it, but because I was going through a burnout of having to create to be evaluated by Academia. After 5 years of not painting, where I focused only on tattooing.
GUACHE
In 2020 I decided to start with guaches and watercolors. With the boredom of lockdowns, the need for a distraction and the nostalgia of the feeling painting gave me, I just wanted to have fun while painting.
OIL on canvas
In 2020 the creation of the Zelu collective gave me the perfect excuse to go back to my favorite media, oils, using the enthusiasm of creating something to exhibit next to some friends that I admire, I got into the right mindset to start it over and discover that it was something that was missing from me that I didn’t want to let go of.
House of flowers
For those who were always welcomed as a foreigner, and after years of feeling like they don’t belong in the society they were inserted into, the mental assimilation of the ostracization justified by their identity, starts being accepted.
One of the essential necessities for a healthy life, in my opinion, is the existence of a support group. A place, in this case a group of people, a community, where there is no need to constantly justify the being, to have to debate their existence, a place without prejudice, expectations, a place of love, support, acceptance… A place that becomes our fortress, our refuge, and in my case, a garden.
This is my love letter to the people in my House of Flowers, because love is infinite and exists to be shared, this is an open letter, I hope you feel loved…