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As an illustrator and a storyteller, I am dedicated to creating delightful illustrations and character-oriented narratives. I develop the idea of constructing a visual playground that offers my audience a pleasant visual experience. Through paying attention to the synergy effect of text and images, I convey central messages about complex emotions, happiness, and resilience. Using color as a vital method with their qualities that can trigger different emotions in people, I explored creating illustrations with emotional atmospheres to support narratives. My thesis projects are two different forms of picture books that share the themes of home, love, and care and are considered to have a broad audience. The power of a wordless project provides me with a space for my introverted and reserved personalities and allows me to express the narratives with my logic. I make effort to transforming personal experiences into universal content that my audience could be relatable. In the visual playground, I create stories, and in return, the stories help me grow into myself.

I use my art practice to express the dualities, issues, questions, feelings and conflicts of a bi-national, bi-culture, and bi-language woman identity - pain, belonging, struggles, cultural loss, self-esteem, acceptance, and inclusion. My practice transports the audience into the experience of being in my world - emotionally and physically - by utilizing Painting, Installation, Sculpture, and Photography. This is portrayed by using elements such as body language, facial expressions, objects, shadows, and nature. My use of iconography is important to represent both the Mexican and American cultures, inspired by the symbolic metaphors of Frida Kahlo. My depiction of dualities is influenced by Cindy Sherman and Ana Mendieta. The colors used in the work reference the national flags, culture and emotions. The materials, such as tissue paper and paper mache, interpret the Mexican handicraft and piñatas, and chicken wire and wire fences relates to the barbed wire and fence of the U.S. and Mexico border. In the U.S., some of these issues are shared between the Chicanx, Latinx, immigrants, women, and minority communities. My work, as well as this paper, decolonizes art and is made to represent the people that resonate with it.