Caged Freedom

Specially, this piece is quite relevant to current events if you take each piece and interpret the meaning of each part of the whole work. What does a doorknob, cage, wire, and other parts represent to you?

Using found objects, salvaged items, domestic relics, and fragments of the everyday, I create mixed media assemblages that explore the tensions and absurdities of contemporary life—social, political, economic, and deeply personal issues. These works emerge intuitively, guided with a dialogo between material, memories and meaning. Each time I enter my studio, I begin with a simple prayer: “If it’s meant to be, bring it through me.”

Much of my work is housed in boxes, drawers, (and jars)—forms I return to with intention. We live in boxes, work in them, sleep in them, drive them. Boxes hold our belongings, our boundaries, and our secrets. They keep things in, keep things out, and often keep things hidden. Drawers and jars especially carry an intimacy; they store what we can't quite let go. But they don’t just conceal—they can also expose. When opened or reassembled, they reveal long-silenced truths, buried emotions, and uncomfortable realities we’d rather keep shut away.

During the isolation of the COVID era, I began constructing small, symbolic sculptures as a way to process the disruption we were all facing—both internal and collective. Each object I choose—whether an old bottle, a spent casing, or a drawer—carries its own past. But together, these fragments form new narratives about containment, vulnerability, power, and resistance.

My process is part ritual, part excavation. I use what’s been discarded to ask what we still carry—and what we can no longer ignore.