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CHRISTIAN:

If I have an overreaching purpose as an artist, it is to battle self conscious irony and apathy, and embrace color, ornamentation, humor, sex, history, poetry, and life in all its ridiculous glory. The natural world plays a huge role in my attitude towards society, and often forms the subject matter of my art. I am obsessed and in love with the variation and physical beauty of nature. To me, every plant and animal has a character and a life that is equally as powerful and meaningful as that of any human. I strive to photographically capture nature in a way that does justice to this character, as well as to the emotional impact of the moment. Music and poetry are to me perhaps the most soulful and penetrating forms of art, and I try to incorporate a lyrical sensibility into my visual work. I feel extremely lucky to have seen a good part of the planet, and I think that the color in my art stems from an unabashed exploration of life in many places; a confrontation of the good, the bad, the foreign and the familiar. Mexico will always be close to my heart, and I'm constantly surprised at the fact that I've lived away from Latin America for so long, and yet the place of my birth is constantly emerging from my subconscious mind. I don't choose to make art that looks Mexican, but oftentimes a Mexican aesthetic seems to guide my creative instinct.

At the moment I am mainly exploring issues of identity, assimilation, and story building through poetry and pastiche. I am fascinated by the aesthetics of repurpose and recombination. At the same time, I find that the paintings I have "in the works" are much more stripped down of ornamentation and representational imagery. I have a new appreciation for texture and abstract form, and I'm curious and excited to see how my style will evolve in more minimalist works. That being said, I think that beauty and humor sometimes have a greater function in society than any concept, method of organization, or intellectual discourse, and I will continue to pursue sensory and emotional exhilaration through art. We are all lost, swimming in a vast broth of random acts and tangled reactions, and art is a way for me to chart my way through the soup.