I mine dual tensions and harmonies between brute and elegant, baroque and minimal, high and low art. The use of both traditional and non-traditional art materials with a focus on second hand materials is explored. I treat and compose non-traditional materials like paint and often create wall mountable pieces that I view as sculptural paintings. Occasionally I will use traditional materials in traditional ways. My work relies on process and I have a few ideas in mind before I begin a new piece. I work on a piece until it is surprising and bizarre.The more bizarre, the better. I want it to feel both sublime and dangerous. I want it to hit me like a good book does with a plot twist and a good ending. If it seems familiar and something I've seen before I work on it until it doesn't.

Rather than just reflecting something that currently exists, my work explores possibilities. It is art that abstractly illustrates content from an imagined space.

I'm descended from violent mixed ancestral history forged in Mexico but born on this side of the border. My work is sometimes a means of tapping into that culture that is lost and the culture from that that exists now, the border culture. Though mainly my work is about exploring possibilities and questioning.

I work with the familiar, with say paint and fabric, till it becomes unfamiliar. Untill it becomes a new object I have never seen before. I tend to work between 2d and 3d because it reminds me of "Nepantla" space. An Imagined space, a middle space.

If my work were a novel it might fit in a genre fusing Culture Studies and Science Fiction. The work I do shares interests with some authors from Sci-Fi: the imagining of new possibilities or new worlds, making the impossible possible, or critiquing elements of a part of the current world. If nothing more my work continues that wonder I had with life when I was younger. When everything was really new and experiences were fresh. I make art that makes me feel that way again.

My aesthetic interests find allegiance to the "Rascuachismo" aesthetic and with some loose associations to kitsch and the low-fi sound utilized in indie music culture. Inspiration comes from various areas: metaphysical literature, b-movies, analog machines, imbricated harmonic textures/music and of course Texas-Mexico border culture. I entertain the idea that my work can be viewed as an attempt to break bread with worlds created by David Lynch, Guillermo Gomez Pena, David Cronenberg, Chingo Bling and Aldous Huxley, premising a bizarre, post-apocalyptic alien land where border dwellers generate steam p(f)unk. My paintings act as relics from a twisted sci-fi meets the barrio alternate reality. A totemic, cosmic barrio display. Product of a larger decolonizing enterprise, that functions from a mentality of what Walter Mignolo calls border gnosis; knowledge developed at the borderland, that takes form at the margins of the modern Western world.