Into the Circus of Sickness

This series was born from anger. As a young artist at the start of her career, I was angry at how difficult it was to carve a path in the art world. As a Latina living in the global north, I was experiencing discrimination for the first time. As a queer person coming to terms with her own sexuality, I was also angry at what the Latino community expected of me as a woman. Their set parameters on how to behave, act, and be did not make sense to me. Society felt like a sick circus - an act in which people play a part in order to conform, wether they actually want to or not. By using bondage and fetish as my visual arsenal, I wanted to challenge these ideas of gender identity, femininity, and masculinity. I wanted to dismantle this complacency, indoctrination, and submission to dogma that I saw—forces that erode freedom and ethical judgment.