1. Where were you born and where are you from ?

I was born and raised in Mexico City and I currently live here.

2. What is your first memory connected to the art world ?

I was always drawn to art, I loved to to things with my hands since I was little. My mother is an interior designer and it has always been in my family.

3. Have you always worked in the art/design field ?

No, even though I’ve always loved the design and art world I initially studied law and actually worked as a lawyer until I was 28 years old.  Later I realized I wanted to change careers because I was very tired and bored and I decided to study a master in interior design at CENTRO in Mexico City.

4. What led you to the design creation ?

During the pandemics I was working as an interior designer but I didn’t have a lot of work and I had a lot of free time with my kids,we did a lot of arts and crafts and I had thousands of paper sheets and cardboard and I couldn’t keep them all. I don’t like to throw anything away, I always reuse and recycle my waste, so I decided to do something with that paper and started making jars and bases at my basement.

5. How would you describe your creative process and it influences ?

I’m inspired by organic forms and everything that is in nature that is so imperfectly perfect and I mix them with geometric forms to obtain something organic but esthetic at the same time.

6. Could you describe a typical day of your work ?

I get up at 5:00 in the morning to exercise and do all my morning rituals before my kids are up. After my kids go to school I go the workshop and work with the artisan all morning, sometimes perfecting a new design or working on the pending order, in the afternoon I’m with my kids and once they are asleep I work on my computer for designing, marketing and all the computer stuff.

7. Why did you choose the specific materials you work with ?

Because we have a lot of materials that are already there without making more waste and damaging the planet even more. We have to learn to live with less and better things and reuse what we already have. I believe that the world is at a point where we can’t afford to keep living like we always have.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

Well, the basis is the paper mache technique, however we have been working on perfecting the technique in order to be waterproof and resistant to the exterior.

9. What advices could you give to beginning artists who would like to create sculptural design works ?

Not to be afraid to try new things and techniques; if you don’t try, you won’t know, and you may surprise yourself. No idea is crazy in art.

10. If your works had to belong to a design movement, in which one would you define it ?

I would go with modern nature but I wouldn’t like to choose just one because as an artist we are always evolving and changing.

11. What designers and artists have influenced you ?

I think I’ve been influenced by a lot of different artists and designers and movements. I’m obsessed with Bauhaus artists, from architects to furniture designers, I admire the progressive mindset they all had and it’s very inspiring to me.

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

I love what Kelly Wrestler does, because she really appreciates emerging art and is always looking for different things that speak to her, every space she designs speaks to you in so many ways.

13. What contemporary artists (in any kind of art) have you been inspired by ?

There are too many artists that inspire me. The firsts that come to my mind are Bosco Sodi, José Dávila, Bram Bogart, George Rousse. Lately, Jessie French’s work has caught my attention.

14. If you had to summarize your creations in one word or sentence, what would it be ?

MAXIMUM SENSORY IMPACT AND MINIMUM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

Proust Questionnaire with very short answers (one or a few words) :
(The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions answered by the French writer Marcel Proust. Other historical figures who have answered confession albums are Oscar Wilde, Karl Marx, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Cézanne…)