BIOGRAPHY
I am a Cuban-Lebanese American artist based in Gainesville, Florida. Born in Miami, within Catholic traditions rich with powerful symbols of life, death, sacrifice, and transcendence, my early visual language was shaped by ritual, iconography, and the charged atmosphere of sacred space. The drama of light against darkness, gold against shadow, permanence against mortality — these tensions remain embedded in my work today.
As an artist, I found another form of spirituality in museums, standing before the canvases of the Abstract Expressionists and modernist painters whose works functioned as their own cultural dogma. In their vast fields of color and disciplined gesture, I discovered a different kind of altar and its saints— one rooted not in doctrine, but in presence. Within this lineage, I began forming my own visual theology.
Over time, my own voice evolved toward a symbiosis between nature and architecture. Botanical forms, fluid currents, and interlocking structures emerge. My compositions reflect the tension between the constructed and the organic — a meditation on nature reclaims, absorbs, and weaves through the man-made. In this space, identity, heritage, and contemporary life converge.
Influenced by modern abstraction, my work bridges physical and contrived spaces. Flat color, rhythmic movement, and architectural balance become metaphors for connection, containment, and expansion. My work responds to today’s saturated image culture with clarity and intention — pieces designed to hold space.
Rooted in heritage yet freed from dogma, my abstraction is both cultural and personal — a living structure where faith, form, and nature meet, and where meaning continues to grow.
As an artist, I found another form of spirituality in museums, standing before the canvases of the Abstract Expressionists and modernist painters whose works functioned as their own cultural dogma. In their vast fields of color and disciplined gesture, I discovered a different kind of altar and its saints— one rooted not in doctrine, but in presence. Within this lineage, I began forming my own visual theology.
Over time, my own voice evolved toward a symbiosis between nature and architecture. Botanical forms, fluid currents, and interlocking structures emerge. My compositions reflect the tension between the constructed and the organic — a meditation on nature reclaims, absorbs, and weaves through the man-made. In this space, identity, heritage, and contemporary life converge.
Influenced by modern abstraction, my work bridges physical and contrived spaces. Flat color, rhythmic movement, and architectural balance become metaphors for connection, containment, and expansion. My work responds to today’s saturated image culture with clarity and intention — pieces designed to hold space.
Rooted in heritage yet freed from dogma, my abstraction is both cultural and personal — a living structure where faith, form, and nature meet, and where meaning continues to grow.