Ever since I was a kid, I have been drawing as a way of documentation and exploration. Over time, I have developed my pictographic language – a code that transforms the silhouette of everything around me and a tool I use to narrate stories just like written language. My pictographs compose semi-abstract and highly detailed imagery. I have been a migrant for eight years now, and my experience as such extensively informs my current work. Beyond documentation, my pictographs are also acting as a threshold between ways of expression under my bicultural context. This way of making provides me with a brief rest from translation and stress over forgetting my Spanish. Presencia a distancia nace como una representación más de mi experiencia migratoria, del va y ven. Del adiós constante y doloroso que en cuestión de horas se vuelve un hola. El cuestionamiento de mis prioridades y decisiones, poniendo en una balanza cuestiones de la vida que no hay cómo medir. Furthermore, in my most recent work I reflect on a shift in perspective and attention due to a newly discovered health condition. With pain and care dictating my capabilities, I am navigating creative adaptation, rest, and silence in my process. This body of work is netting together these narrative threads that contain my life. Esto es presencia a distancia. Categories All Tags #thesis2023