Murals
Murals are my way of connecting to myself and understanding life within a community. By creating public art, I have the chance to challenge my comfort zone, spend more time outside, and connect with a community on a deeper level. Each piece is meticulously researched, designed, and installed with nature and community in mind. No piece is successful when created alone. Collaboration is the biggest celebration when it comes to creating art for the world.
Life & Legacy
Inspired by woven textiles, printmaking, and storytelling, I decided to create a design that shares a story about life and legacy. There is a long history with Filipino culture in Salinas, CA. A lot of it is blurry, sad, and disheartening, but there are a lot of glimpses of hopefulness, positivity, and resilience. Filipinos helped forged a path for a better environment, and I want to honor them with this mural. By depicting the values of a thriving, positive community using Filipino-inspired symbolism, I’ve created a design where each viewer can engage with each element and find truth, fairness, respect, strength, spiritual growth, unity, love, harmony, and resilience.
Wild & Grown
The Havana Soliz Park in Seaside is the biggest park (out of 9!) within the city that desperately needed some tender loving care. With the help of the Science Illustration Program at CSUMB, Friends of Seaside Parks, and Blue Zones Projects Monterey, I was brought in to paint their new shed to highlight their diverse and expansive community and pollinator gardens. Based on the responses from the community, I gathered their hopes, ideas, and dreams and created something that pulls people in and helps them understand the park more.
Explore Our Wild and Medicinal Earth
Made to be have an educational, curiosity-like quality, I created this piece for the restoration of the Monterey Beach Hotel. Highlighting the importance of our symbiotic relationship with nature, I included sacred, medicinal, and native plants to encourage others to identify them on their hikes, a map of Monterey County to help people understand where they are on Earth, and a topographical map of the Monterey Bay Canyon to express how vast and diverse our bay is.
The combination of crisp linework and detailed color is to show the process of what it's like to travel, field sketch, and connect with the world.
Carmocha
Back in the 60s, a woman traveled the world to taste and experience all of the different flavors from many different cultures. She was strong, independent, open to the world, and free spirited. While she traveled, she sent letters home to her family sharing her experiences that invoked inspiration and expressed appreciation for what she had: A loving family and the freedom to explore.
Transient Tales
With rolling waves and changing tides, with fast flowing waterfalls and wispy, fragrant trees, Inspiration is found in both open spaces and hidden corners. What’s hidden beneath Maui’s waters, can now be seen both with and without goggles.
This mural tells a tale, of stories in which can be experienced, both in our minds and out in the sea. Transient tales is about living beings expressing connection for survival, showing us that life thrives together from the interactions we have with each other.
The story of symbiosis.
Live Painting
It's a special experience to have people watch something come alive from a couple of hours to a few days. Each piece started out as a rough draft, and through the combination of laughter, music, dancing, and being, the art created in the moment can tie a whole event together. The energy of a collective who come together to celebrate is enough to create magic.
