I am a mixed-media photographer who uses analog photography, printmaking, and the ocean and its shores to explore immigration, identity, and personal narratives that particularize universal themes.

The ocean has the ability to shift me to a state of calmness and of serenity.  This served me in both remaining mentally sane, since I was always in a state of overwhelmed as I being my mother’s caregiver, and as well in arriving at the particular way of seeing in creating the images of my series “Reality and Imagination”.
Being absolutely present mentally and physically was of utmost importance in both situation. It was needed not only in order to be able to distance myself temporarily from the overwhelm, but also to be able to compose and create the images on the spot in a single shot.  
Creating in this manner on the spot gave me access to a way of seeing that I was able to put at the service of an idea. The idea being the exploration of the interaction between the culture of the host country and that of the immigrant.
The way of seeing that I mentioned is composed of two equal parts. The first part is the silhouette and shadow aspect since both depend on the presence of light to exist in the same manner the host country needs the immigrant.
The second half, equally as important, is the frame of mind which permitted me to see, to accept, and to use the movement of the tide and sand as the canvas on which to present and explore the idea of immigration.