Cloudlines

2002-2026

A throughline across my practice, the contour of the cloud has been a recurring muse from the beginning—an image I return to as a grounding and orienting gesture within my creative work. These cloud lines appear across bodies of work and projects, functioning like an artery that connects a living, evolving body of lifework.

The cloud drawings are repeated abstractions, layered in ink, paint, pencil, and collage, unfolding on surfaces I have been drawn to and had access to during different phases of my life. They appear in aging schoolbooks purchased from paper shops in Oaxaca, where I lived and worked; on the surface of porcelain; on handmade and translucent papers; and within sketchbooks carried across time and place. Each surface holds its own history, allowing the cloud form to adapt, migrate, and reassert itself.

These drawings exist both as individual meditations and as a cumulative whole—an ongoing practice of attention, return, and repetition. Together, they function as an anchor: a visual language through which I locate myself, revisit memory, and sustain continuity amid change.