“Parallel worlds” is a self-portrait, cut out into horizontal slices done in with inspiration through Micaela Lattanzio’s distorted portrait style to show how I was affected by different people. Ideologies have changed through these interactions. I experienced multiple personalities and confusion which made me feel like I don’t belong anywhere. Who am I?... Where is my place in society...in the world? When will the fractured fragments line up to feel whole in my life again?

Here is a collection of common trashed items with coins in between.  The piece shows how me, and my friends would find our own type of treasures through the trash and make our own inventions through it, making the best of every situation in the most abstract way. This was our way of having fun in the most out of place location. In the style of Linnea Tobias, I used high contrasts with color pencils and the use of everyday things which she has mentioned to be her inspiration for her work.

This series of drawings showing skeletons going through an average lifetime done with inspiration from Jose Guadalupe Posada’s skull artwork shows the connections between the knowledge transferred between life and death since both teach us about certainties and uncertainties that go through both experiences in this abstract and unpredictable experience and how they all connect and are tied together in the form of everyone’s destiny that has been left for everyone to discover with time.

The astronaut helmet shows a reflection of Santiago, Chile in a David Hockney color style and a Nick Flook inspiration from the astronaut helmet. To show the place where I am from and how I became an outsider/stranger to my own town. Every visit felt like I did not belong to this changed place. More and more as the city changed and my friends grew up without me in the circle, I felt out of place and great discomfort about what is home. Where is home if not your birthplace?

This is the Vegas entrance at night with a homeless man standing in Marc Trujillo's style of representation of consumeristic places shown empty. It represents the gambling issue that a close friend had and how it has ended up with him homeless for a period of time. The theme of “luck” and “out of place” is since nobody expects a homeless person to be in Vegas due to the cost associated with it. No one really wins in Vegas and no one’s family wins from gambling habits.