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

I am from Mexico City, where I was raised and where I currently live.

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

My earliest memory was the first artist that I ever met. Not coming from a family of artists, this first encounter was quite endearing – This was our front door neighbor: Her name was Francis, she was a woman in her 40s and had a lovely garden where she planted mostly flowers, which she then used in her art work. She made flower pressed collages.

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

Yes

4. What led you to the design creation ?

Curiosity for the world around me.
Contemplating nature, its perfect proportions and compositions.
Studying how objects are created through craftsmenship.

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

I would say it’s material-based. My first approach is allways to the material, studying its confromation, texture, resistance, malleability, craftmenship – this opens the path to start creating first models and prototypes.

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

Lost of emails, messages, calls… losts of coffee.
In the meantime of responding to all this.. Ongoing creative ideas, models, sketches, in my mind, in my desk, in my conversation with others… anywhere I can ‘land’ the abstract ideas to start taking shape.

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

I love working with natural materials, there is something quite profund in the comformation of the rocks of our planet, the wood’s grain, cristalisation of minerals, .. Its so mesmerizing to me I feel the urge of approaching.

8. What are the technical particularities of your creations ?

Lots of engineering, blue prints and prototypes.

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

To believe in themselves.

To believe in what they do.

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

Abstract Expressionism

11. What designers have influenced you ?

Mies Van Der Rohe

12. What contemporary designers do you appreciate ?

Jose María Balmaceda

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

Clyfford Still

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

Ethereal

15. Is there anything you would like to add ?

I am gratefull and overflown to be part of Galerie Philia.

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…)