The Shape shifter

I am a shape shifter. I am a white passing latino male from a cuban background raised in Miami and currently blending into the mixing pot of New York. But, I am a shapeshifter. In order to transform ones shape one must first delete their shape. Within my practice I focus on being a figure apart of the human race. It is from this singularity that I filter my identity self through different cultural lens whether it be ambiguous or explicit, it is a tool for me to explore the reaches of the human story and expand my relationship with humanity at large—to find a kindred bond with cultures by looking through the filter of the human race without placing any culture, ethnography or belief systems above another. I have forgone the notion of cultures being considered foreign or belonging to a restricted source for artistic interaction. It is about the stories and how one can build a relationship through the total immersion and integration with the understanding of tales that stand to be preserved and reanimated by retelling them in new light. It Is hard to explain the pleasure of digging deep down the rabbit holes of myths and folklore from bygone times. It goes beyond just re-telling of tales from long ago; the stories infect me as a Baader-Meinhof phenomenon where I start seeing how they parallel with my own contemporaries’ oneiric concoctions—to begin to engage and be consumed by stories as if playing in a collaborative improvisational session with the universal narratives of seemingly divergent tales told anachronistically within the paints plane, knitting them together to produce a union even among disparate kinds of knowledge to create new meanings. To this degree, the sea of metaphors pertaining to each of my paintings is more than meets the mind; as such, I’m happy with the statement, “this is a painting about blue”.