ARTIST STATEMENT

I tell big stories using small figures. My video work explores memory as a living, unstable force — something we inherit, reshape, and carry within us long after moments and people have passed. I am drawn to the emotional architecture of family: the ways love, grief, humor, and silence are transmitted across generations. Through intimate storytelling and inventive approaches, I investigate how personal history becomes an internal landscape we move through for the rest of our lives.

Much of my practice begins with my Puerto Rican family, not simply as subjects, but as collaborators in a shared emotional excavation. I work in the space between documentation and interpretation, where lived experience meets imagination. This has led me to blend documentary sensibilities with constructed elements such as 3D printed miniatures and sets, visual metaphor, and poetic structure. By manipulating scale and perspective, I aim to visualize emotional truths that realism alone cannot hold.

Absence is a recurring presence in my films. Loss, longing, and the persistence of those no longer physically here shape both my themes and formal choices. I return to the idea that the past is not behind us, but embedded within us — influencing how we see, love, and remember.

I view cinema as a place of quiet revelation rather than spectacle, where small gestures and intimate voices carry profound weight. My work seeks to give form to what is otherwise intangible: the inner weather of being human.  After all, if we don't tell our own stories, then who will?