I work across materials and processes to make forms that question how value and presence get decided. My practice is interdisciplinary and rooted in handmaking, using materials that are often written off alongside more durable ones, letting their behavior and baggage shape the work. Through repetition, accumulation, and improvisation, I build pieces that take up space—sometimes dense and bodily, sometimes stretched or structural. I’m drawn to tension: care against neglect, fragility against resilience, what’s protected versus what’s discarded. Shaped by my experience as a Mexican-American woman, the work pays attention to how materials carry history, and how making can function as both a formal move and a social act, whether that happens in the studio or out in public with other people.