About My Work

The themes in my work are inspired by experiences from my environment, images, objects that evoke memories, current personal or societal problems. I am interested in using symbols of nature as a resource when communicating and integrating these themes and ideas.

Through the different mediums of art that I use, I picture my work in three dimensions, large scale, and placed in open spaces. Almost as if the figures and images had the necessity to feel the air, experience climatic changes, and contribute to the landscape in a public space. Hence, the majority of ideas that I have developed in my work have a deep relationship with their natural environment where I aim to pose didactic and constructive messages to the observer. In my most recent works, for example, the aim is to bring awareness to issues of climate change, specifically how it relates to the extinction of species of Colombia’s rich flora and fauna. I see the preserving of nature as a communal responsibility and I aim to transmit this message through my art.

In the process of building my sculptures, I use drawings, small-scale physical models, and AutoCAD drawings to help evolve and define the final forms of the work. The results of the models feed into precision laser cutting techniques on steel, aluminum, or iron. The final structure usually undergoes layers of electrostatic paint and anti-corrosion treatments.

There are a variety of artists and styles that I feel special admiration for and are influences on the development of my work. The Magical Realism, pioneers of modernism in 20th century sculpture and contemporary sculptors such as Claes Oldenburg and the Colombian Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar among others.