I was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, but I’m based in Ensenada, Baja California, in Mexico.

I think I can say that I have always loved creating. Ideas, problems, solutions, processes, etc. For me, creating is what moves me. But my first serious approach to the art and design field was when I co-started a business five years ago for exterior furniture in Guadalajara (fire pits, to be more specific). The first fire table we made was handcrafted by me. From the conception of the design, choosing materials, formulas, and basically making mistakes and learning from them. Since then, I’ve worked every single moment along with the art and design field in every project. It was a before and after in my life.

This is a hard one. My nuclear family is not close to art and design, so I developed my interest in this world when I was older. I don’t know exactly why I have this memory so present, but as a child, I remember having curiosity about a little statue of my grandmother (who was like my second mother). And with that “curiosity” I mean, I started to intervene (destroy) it with crayons and paint. My grandmother got really mad; it was a recognition statue from the Universidad de Guadalajara because my grandmother was a professor in plastic arts. She was a teacher in techniques of painting and sculpture. I don’t remember exactly what she said to me, but she didn’t punish me; instead, she gave me an explanation about the shape of the statue, and I think that’s how she opened the door of art in me. Maybe I have that strong memory because of the guilt I’m still carrying for destroying her reward.

I’ve been really introspective with this desire on creating/sculpting pieces. It’s difficult to explain it, but for me it’s a need that comes naturally. In my life, I’d work a lot, and by that I mean I’d experience a lot of different ways of living and perceiving reality. From helping my mother when I was a child in her event planning business, working in a stationery store, a money exchange center, and a packaging industrial company, to creating my first business selling desserts, then co-founding a coffee/ habanos shop, and finally co-founding an exterior furniture studio. Also, I tried studying medicine and engineering for a few years… It feels like in my short life, I desperately wanted to find myself and passion, to find a reason to live. In 2019, I lived a “life-changing experience” and that led me to realize that creating is who I am… I understood that life comes from us, not toward us.

By making pieces, I’d learn how to use different languages of creation to communicate ideas that come to my mind. Sometimes I feel limitless with words; it’s difficult for me to express my different ways of thinking. When I’m working on a piece, I’m really focused on every detail, and I learn a lot about life by working with natural materials. I like to always compare different techniques and processes of sculpting with my life and how this world moves. Design creation is really a muse for me. Is the reason I’m alive.