ARTIST STATEMENT

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My practice evolves as swiftly as my human experiences. With the development of my pictorial language, I discover new things about my personal history and identity. As a child born to immigrant parents, my tangled roots lay in limbo, not belonging here nor there. My artworks seeks to validate and preserve the particles left of my Hungarian and Salvadoran heritage through an intuitive and diverse lens. These ideas take their identities in shapes on parchment or vellum. Using graphite, archival ink, acrylic, and gouache you can find a precarious dance between ambiguous forms reminiscent of folk motifs and the regimented relationship of line, point, and dimension. The art of storytelling is told through a medley of patterns, florals, and creatures that creates a visual language that unifies with architectural design. Color speaks as a conductor of internalized emotions. When abstraction is found it is reminiscent of the assemblage of broken memories. The intuitive development of these works is influenced by collected images through personal photographs and cultural research. Artist Louise Despont impacts my methodology in the way she uses pencil, architecture, and intuition in her large-scale drawings. I am interested in the human psyche and seek to understanding the human experience through automatism. Spiritual artists Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin blossomed their personal dialects through abstraction which navigates and inspires my processes. Carl Jung’s phyilosophy in the Psychology of Alchemy, the mandala, and the collective unconscious inspires my practice. The evidence of these philosophies are found in my work in the recurring and repeated spheres within these drawings and their desire to portray wholeness and unity with the viewer.