Born and mostly raised in San Antonio, Texas; when other kids were left at malls or other typical locales, I was dropped off at libraries, museums, zoos, and botanical gardens-- where security guards and groundskeepers at times got to know me by name due to all the reminders that enjoying botany and experiencing art didn't quite mix with playing G.I. Joe.

My parents fed my love of art by sending me to summer day camps at the McNay and the Southwest Craft Center, on top of the general outings and drop-offs during the school year. When I attended university, anthropology and the arts were my main courseloads, and whenever possible I return to continue my education in these subjects, always wanting to learn new things and sharpen my knowledge and skills at older ones.

At an early age I also fell in love with the desert, during road trips through the four corner states and spring breaks spent in the Big Bend National Park. In 2006 I moved to Alpine, Texas, to be in the desert mountains and closer to the national park that sparked so much in me as I grew.

My main and early artistic influences were Chicano art, precolumbian and modern Latin American art, ancient Asian art, and Christian religious art alongside comic books and animation. While I have been introduced to and surrounded by many other inspiring art genres and traditions, the symbolism and storytelling that often filled those early passions remain the two strongest threads that tie my various works together-- most of my artwork has narrative within it, drawn from the way I see and hear the world around me, and also the symbols of that world and cultures. Whether the viewer will see/hear the story I was telling or a story that is more personally immediate, I strive to find the voice of human experiences and dreams.

Drawing remains the backbone of all my work, as well as a meditation in a way. My drawings are highly stylized, often seeming somewhere between calligraphy and tribal tattoo as I use bold lines and individual, sometimes symbolic shapes to make the whole.

I paint using acrylics, and enjoy working other mediums into them, my style heavily using outline and brilliant coloring, reflecting stained glass, pre-classical age art, and tattoo stylization.

My printmaking is relief work, usually using carved linoleum. I enjoy using different papers both as base and as part of the chine colle technique. My edition runs are usually small, for some designs I run two or three editions, plain, chine colle, and/or hand colored. I prefer handcoloring when printing, as it allows me to be more spontaneous. Sometimes I also incorporate my print blocks into other pieces as textural touches via modelling pastes.

A current project of mine that started in March 2011 is using stencils of my drawings on paper, panel and canvas with acrylic spraypaint, experimenting with repetition of line, shape, and colors to create my narratives. I consider all these pieces to be monoprints.

A similar project that is more background at the moment involves my drawings being cut into metal, and used to create silhouette pieces, and these techniques and goals also go into much of my glasswork, jewelry design or textilework, which are all areas and materials I have long been fascinated with.