Shikantaza

These pieces present a body of work that, oscillating between representation and abstraction, the pictorial and the sculptural, combines elements from two specific sources: the illustrations that the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias made for his book “El arte indígena de México y Centroamérica” and a variety of elements from the visual vocabulary of the Italian avant-garde Futurism movement. Interested in the meditative interiority of the former (e.g., the spiral of pre-Colombian art) and the quixotic explosiveness of the latter, I have filtered these two points of reference through their own idiosyncratic way of seeing things, transmuting them into objects that thrive on formal, spiritual, and ideological ambiguity.