Artist Statement

To be very frank, my every day interests, those seemingly unimportant thoughts that seem to whirlwind in my head at the convenient time of 2 AM on a Tuesday school night, seem to stratch across too many mediums and are much too much to count. Television, video games, film, animation, music (to name a few); I’ve come to realize much media I've come to consume on a daily basis, chraacters, story lines and morals I've come to obsess over, to derive inspiration from.

 I’ve often found myself, like many others, speaking non stop about an actor’s amazing performance in a television show, or the laughable writing in a major summer block buster. How wonderfully feminist a story's main heroine had turned out to be or how I can go on and on about the senseless white washing of an adapted work that was (quite clearly) meant to have a more Asian cast. (Avatar the Last Airbender, anyone?)  I realize that love to praise as much as I love to critique and gradually, it had dawned to me, that as silly as it might has sounded at the time, film and media in general, has become one of my biggest strongest passions.

At the time, however, I wasn’t sure what to do with that information as I felt absolutely devoid of talent and skill to attempt anything productive in the field. The only experience that would come close to it were the amateur music videos I used to create in Windows Movie Maker when I was still in high school. Though they were somewhat mediocre in quality (in my overly critical opinion), I held a high sense of pride in the work I did whilst creating it. I became entranced in the process of editing the animation footage over music, cutting and splicing frames, and blending it together in a way that made sense and seemed clever in my mind. Sure, my work didn't match up to any of the awe inspiring work I often found myself rewatching relentlessly, the clever syncing and editing effects on videos I saw on the web, but I tried my best to emulate it and I felt rather happy with my efforts.

Those videos were simply a side project, yes, but I never would have realized that I would seriously attempt dabbling in the world of video and film once more in a more professional sense until now.

I strive to create imaginitive and inspiring works, for those in the world who too often find themselves uninspired by the repetitive and mundane sources of entertainment we are forced to consume on a daily basis. I want to create a world of heros and heroines that represent groups of people in this world that do not get the proper representation they deserve; to paint and mold stories that a petite shy Dominican girl growing up in the shade of broken down apartment apartment buildings in Washington Heights, would one day draw strength and self confidence from.

Video editing, cinematic make up, story writing are the tools I've chosen to make these dreams a reality, the mediums of creation that I feel I have the most potential. I still have so much to learn, a proper more sophisticated grounding to create for myself, but I know that once I find my niche, I will create things of strength and beauty that even my quiet small 13 year old self would be proud of.