Baja Series

Created during a residency at Pólvora in Baja California, the Baja Series is embedded in the desert’s vast landscapes, ancestral cosmologies, and enduring Mesoamerican knowledge shaped by Mayan and Aztec traditions. Moving through the land and working in close attunement with its rhythms, I worked using materials drawn from the desert, including nopal and cochineal, substances carrying deep cultural and spiritual significance. In Mesoamerican culture, these materials are bound to ideas of sustenance, renewal, sacrifice, and cyclical time, woven into ritual practices and collective memory.

The series moves through spatial forms that recall thresholds and horizons, shaped by the desert’s scale and sense of duration. These compositions ask for a slower way of looking, opening moments of pause where perception softens and attention turns inward. The works hold space for reflection, allowing connections between land, time, and unseen forces to be felt rather than described.