I enjoy working with watercolor because it bleeds. Bleeding shapes identity. It blurs the edges of it too. I create to find poetry in ways of seeing, challenging binaries.

Interdependence and interconnection enthrall me. Isn’t it wonderful how roots look just like branches?

I’m curious about the relationships between nature and people and questions about our shared humanity.

‘Symbolo’ means to throw together. ‘Diabolo’ means to throw apart. I believe art should throw together—it’s symbolism. Interconnection, sacrifice, seeing, and environmental stewardship are some reoccurring thoughts in my work.

I am a daughter of cultural collision. My mother is Puerto-Rican and father is American. This has greatly influenced my perspective on throwing together. Places of confrontation could be opportunities for translation. I see beauty in translating. It can be an act of poetry, stringing together words to form a mosaic of meaning.

I learned a lot through putting myself in unfamiliar situations. Serving as a chef in a convent in Italy, I noticed how knowledge about nature is often spiritual and tied to food. Cloistering with monks in a Trappist monastery in Spain taught me how one’s internal wars are inseparable from their ways of moving through their external one. Sitting with an beekeeper on a mountainside of Japan, I confronted the dangers of intellectualizing lived experience. Walking a religious pilgrimage and speaking to pilgrims about death, I questioned my own stillness. Contributing to forums of diplomacy, I learned about language—how it can free but also paralyze.

I grew up in Miami. Near the mangroves and egrets and gumbo limbos.

Currently, I'm based in London, at the Royal College of Art. Creating and collaborating. Before the RCA, I spent my undergraduate time thinking, writing, and organizing forums about nature and international affairs.

Before institutional education, my grandmothers taught me much—how to dance, laugh, see. Puerto Rico showed me beautiful ways to encounter light, wind, water, movement. I’ve noticed myself carrying this rhythm into my creating.

I’m interested in interdisciplinary audacity: bringing together many fields and perspectives to respond to today’s challenges with beauty and artistry—a Climate Renaissance philosophy of change. My recent projects have engaged diverse audiences, from organizing activations at international climate conferences to leading community exhibitions.

Art can be a beginning—a seed.

Seeds are meant to grow.