I grew up in Colombia, where I witnessed lands and lifeways caught in the struggle between the eco-genocidal forces of the drug trade and the U.S. War on Drugs. The biodiverse Colombian forests, along with the complex socio-economic histories that have threatened their existence since colonization, remain present in my body and memory. My work responds to these layered histories by engaging the interconnections between land, memory, and practices of stewardship, care, and belonging.

For many Colombians, identity is linked to Coca, a plant systematically demonized through colonial narratives of myth and misinformation. My practice explores how plants, especially those burdened by political and economic conflict, hold knowledge, history, and agency. Through site-specific sculpture, prints, paintings, installations, and material experimentation, I examine the erasure and transformation of these ecologies and their cultural significance.

My process begins with fieldwork, an act of communing with plants that allows me to build a personal lexicon of forms and textures, deepened by conversations with Indigenous communities who hold ancestral and contemporary knowledge of local ecologies. Working with analog and digital techniques — drawing, frottage, monoprinting, and digital painting — I create layered compositions that invite reflection on the forest's intricate networks of meaning and relationships. I translate this visual vocabulary into sculptural forms using natural materials gathered from the forest or co-created with Colombian artisans. I welcome the ephemerality of natural cycles — transformation, decay, and renewal — embedding ritual and offering into my process. Through this approach, I seek not only to represent but to participate in the ongoing dialogue of care and resistance embedded in the land.