My life started in Palmira, Colombia in 1999. As a toddler I drew and filled my old-home’s walls with long stick figures, scribbles and happy suns. I was deeply infatuated with sketching and drawing caricatures that I would see on television from animated shows during the 2000’s. For instance, I was a big consumer of shows like Dragon Ball Z, Teen Titans, Codename: Kids Next Door, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Samurai Jack, and many other shows that were immensely popular at the time.
I would often watch these shows and draw the characters that appealed to me the most in several notebooks that I brought to school. By the time I entered the third grade, I grew to love and have a strong passion for drawing. I was fortunate enough to turn my small obsession into something that I would share and make bonds with my school peers and childhood friends at that time. Then, within the next school grade, I would partake in simple drawing comissions for other students in my grade and in turn I found my interest fulfilled me with a sense of purpose.
But of course, I was still a child and my early development was no different than any other child who wishes to play and be curious about everything in life. I was truly lucky to have opportunities at such young age to have friends and family members that encouraged me to draw these television characters. Despite the fact I had not taken any formal classes to learn about drawing these characters, I was enjoying every moment in which I held a pen or pencil after the transformation of an empty piece of paper to a work of art.
Within a couple of years, the next pivotal moment in my life occurred when I immigrated to the United States alongside my family in 2010. I was a young teen and several parts of my life as well as my character (as a person) would drastically change inward and outwards. I had to readjust to a new culture, make new friendships, close a few chapters, and adapt to a new environment. For me this was a unique time in which I went through an abrupt change of interests that quietly made me place my passion of drawing into an “old memories box”.
From there on, I entered high school with new callings that made me sought after other paths that diverged into film/video production, photography and writing. Throughout that time, I was also curious to explore and circle back to opening that old memories box which I had put to the side. I aligned my creative interests when I enrolled at Maine College of Art in 2018, and I had the opportunity to branch out towards other mediums of creating and learning about fine art.