Artist Statement

Artist Statement
As an artist, I tend to create work that reflects who I am and what I believe in. I am a young Hispanic male who is interested in my culture and my surroundings. One of the strongest pieces that I made this year is the Southeast Corridor piece. This group of photographs? are of the Southeast Corridor in Boston, MA. I started off by taking pictures of it from different angles to convey different subject matter. When I looked at the pictures, I started to think about positives, like the “El Convite Banilejo”, an annual Dominican party at Stony Brook station. On this day, every Dominican in Boston from Bani comes, buys food, listens to some music and socializes with other Dominicans. But there have also been some negative events that happened there, like the shooting of a young man from Jamaica Plain. I started to make my photographs look like evidence of good and bad occurrences. In in my art work I tend to focus on my surroundings and also I try to find a connection with my heritage.

In the creation of my art work I tend to explore different media to express my intention for the art. I am not married to one medium, I love to explore and figure out how the medium can be useful in my art. But one medium has capture my attention: paint. Ever since junior year when I joined the Mural Crew. I really saw how with only paint, you can create a piece of artwork that the community can appreciate and also help them by making their community a better place. I'm currently making mural murals around Boston and I'm going to continue making murals.