Description

As a Nicaraguan-American artist, my work navigates the complexities of a mixed identity shaped by cultural dissonance and belonging. I create paintings that merge the visual languages of Americana and Latinx to construct new environments where people who exist between worlds can see themselves belong. Through a practice that blends painting with collage, I incorporate found materials tied to my life in the United States alongside imagery rooted in Nicaraguan landscapes, history and memory. These layered surfaces become sites of cultural collision and reconciliation, transforming society’s scraps and in the process celebrates the working class my family’s personal experiences. At its core, my work is a search for acceptance from both the places I call home and the exploration of how that tension has molded the identity of who I am today.