Fickle Leaf Fig Painting

I am a self-taught artist based in Nashville, TN. Although I took art classes all four years of high school, I thought I was too busy to pursue it in college and right after. It wasn’t until the 2020 pandemic that I picked up a paintbrush again to occupy myself and try to decorate my apartment walls without spending much money. I fell in love with creating and haven’t looked back since. Painting is a way for me to create, find joy and beauty in the world, and express myself in all of my myriad identities. One of my biggest joys is making space for people of color to see themselves as art. I am a mixed Latina who is still finding ways to exist in a white-supremacist world. I am obsessed with painting mujeres and our bodies as a form of reclamation, joy, radical self-love, and defiance.