My current practice focuses on merging themes of queer identity/sexuality, marginalization, erasure, and social unease with playful cartoonish imagery to create dissonance. This tension reflects how I feel living as a marginalized person in a white, cis het, society.
As a gay man I take deep pride in my community not just as an artist but as an artist who seeks to increase the visibility of the LGBTQIA experience. Delving into what is to exist and create on the fringe of society.
Being a man of mixed race descent is another factor to the work I create. Being half white and half latinx, I belong to neither culture or racial group. Racially orphaned, my work features characters and situations that don’t belong in a realistic space because I often feel like I don’t either.
It is this alienation, this “otherness” that drives me to create. Pushes my art to step beyond the pastoral, rote representations of everyday. I think we have had just about enough of that. Don’t you?