Acrylic, Color Pencil, Ink
5x7
2007
Line Drawing:
This figure is one that I repeat often I just love her proportions and her curves. I drew up this outline while engaged in some healthy mindless doodling. The title is a personal reference. This is my "I can't win" stance... that's when you know you just gotta let it go.
Color:
The way these colors play and move symbolize the flurry of frustration. Yes, it is not pleasant to experience but the hight of frustration is amazing. These colors illustrate the spectrum and enormous volume of emotions and thoughts going on with in each of us. Her "vibrational mix" is like a blizzard of colors - this is the moment that connects the blizzard to the first sigh of relief.
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Ink
5x7
2007
Line Drawing :When this line drawing came to me, I was feeling as though I needed to stretch out a bit to create some breathing room.
Color:
I used this orange to symbolize craziness. The orange inside her cube is muted and soft. Outside her cubicle it is moving, sharp, and wild. She is able to create her own peace.
I chose orange because when I was little I read an article in Cosmo that listed the colors of the rainbow with their "meanings." Orange was crazy...gasp! I panicked . You see, that was my mother's favorite color. I confirmed my fear when I casually asked her favorite color. " I love orange!" She replied, unaware that she had just sealed her own doom. I remember so clearly vowing to never ever like orange. Now...it's one of my favorite colors.
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Ink
5x7
2007
Line Drawing:I don't remember when I drew this, it predated my own daughter's birth. I wanted to show that the mother and child share a private little world. An entire galaxy that only they exist. I wanted this to be universal, any mother any child.
Color:
Green has always been a healing color to me and motherhood has been a healing process. Yellow is energy and warmth, it is clear and light. That's what these little people are they are fresh from the source goodness.
Acrylic, Color Pencil, Ink
5x7
2007
Line Drawing:This figure is one that I repeat often I just love her proportions and her curves. I drew up this outline while engaged in some healthy mindless doodling. The title is a personal reference. This is my "I can't win" stance... that's when you know you just gotta let it go.
Color:
I made this background and thought instantly of the night and magic. Many of us feel safe to unleash in the dark of the night. This is my personal celebration of that unfurling of self.
Untitled
Acrylic
16x20
2002 
My favorite books were filled with animal human creatures destined for greatness. I would be a centaur and my coat would blend into the sky. The figure at the base of the tree is a guardian. This is a moment of bliss and simplicity.
Smoke Rings
Color Pencil
11x14
2000
This color pencil drawing was an exercise that turned out to be a favorite. Between the illusion of a transparent three dimensional smoke ring, and how the colors play- it became one of my favorites.
Atlas
Acrylic on Canvas
5x5
2005
This is a painted piece made as my own little spin on Atlas. I love the female form. I love the way women show beauty in every moment- even if we are responsible for the weight of the world. This painting is very small but that is a perfect balance to the size of the statement. Big things come in small packages.
Spider
Acrylic, Color Pencil on Paper
11x14
2007
Line Drawing:
In this drawing there are two people engaged in their own version of 'spider.' Remember that? In grade school when two people would sit facing each other on a swing.
I always make my girls thick and luscious and my men beautiful and powerful.
Color:
This was created during an art night with my mother. i did not use ink to strengthen the line drawing . The camouflage is a good balance to the blunt sexuality.
Watercolor
9x12
2000
This piece was inspired by my stay in
Charcoal
18x22
2003
This was done for a coworker who was creating his own comic book series. This was to be the pilot book cover. I love commissions, I would never thought of this but it is so powerful I love it. There is a special detail - a silhouette of a howling wolf in the center of the man's eye.
Acrylic on Canvas Board
16x20
2001
This piece was inspired by a poster from WWII. It illustrated a new, stronger woman stepping up to fill the gap left by the men who became soldiers. She was tall, strong, with pants and a bandanna. Looking directly to the future.This is about me finding my own way to be Puerto RicanNow I know. I am boricua.. it's the food, the love, the music, talking with your hands, really loud family gatherings, forgiveness and faith.
My father is very proud of his ancestors and his name. I dedicated this painting to him so he see that I am too.
