“Space is the place” - Sun Ra
I’m a multidisciplinary artist and cultural organizer working across poetry, film, and community-based practice. My work explores language, labor, memory, and place through writing and participatory visual storytelling.
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I’d love to share more about my vision and work and discuss our potential collaboration.
“To have memory is to have hope” - Pancho Argüelles
I’m currently completing a poetry manuscript and developing screenwriting projects that examine intimacy, translation, and everyday life. I’m also producing a documentary short rooted in the East Aldine neighborhood of Houston that explores care, arrival, and the quiet infrastructures that shape how people come to belong.
My creative practice is deeply informed by my long-term organizing with immigrant and multilingual communities across Houston, as well as my work as a co-founder of Tecolotl, a multilingual, community-led planning and language justice collective. I'm a former Art & Social Engagement Fellow at Project Row Houses (2020) and have participated in artist residencies including Stove Works (2023). My work continues to center neighborhood life, collective care, and the politics of presence.
a bit about me
I’m originally from a small, rural town in Guanajuato, Mexico and migrated with my family to the U.S. when I was 9 years old. I grew up in a working class household in the city of Houston, where I graduated high school, college, and began organizing alongside immigrant workers to transform our workplaces, communities, and the city at large.