Archived Works

Inferential Drift

Inferential Drift (2019)
Tarlatan, LEDs, RTC, lenses, prints and drawings, pipes.
Installation on wall 5’ x 12’

Cualtantos

Cualtantos (2019) is my thesis book that was completed for my MFA program at RISD, a merging of two Spanish words, cual (which) and tantos (many). It has four general parts all printed on tengujo paper with photopolymer plates on a vandercook. This book is meant to be considered poetry in its entirety. It was made with the ideas of three realms in mind, the celestial, the self and the terrestrial. The transparency and lightweight properties of the book are essential, as they cause overlapping, a sense of fragility, and a visible presence of pages that are not the ones currently facing the viewer.

First part: Poems with words selected as a reaction to my thesis piece and its process, Inferential Drift. Vocabulary was important, as I used words that I associate strongly with the celestial, the self, and the terrestrial, and I slowly transition the combination of these words to merge and blur the division of the three “parts” in each sentence. There are roman numerals within parenthesis notating important moments when they were being written.

Second part: These three grids are using words that relate to the three realms mentioned before, again with a focus in my vocabulary- I again used a list of words that I strongly associate with each realm. In the first grid, they are hierarchically divided (words I associate with celestial are at the top of the page, self in the middle and terrestrial at the bottom). The second one is similar but the words begin to mix and are more ambiguous. In the third grid they are all mixed up and I used more words I found harder to fit into a category of a realm.

Third part: A mapping influenced by celestial charts, they refer back to the notations in the first part, and are meant to imply a missing, floating, something.

Fourth part: Three engravings that are hierarchically placed, that symbolize the three realms.

Llanura

Llanura (2019). This piece is an exploration of trying to create a landscape for the mind. A landscape or place that doesn’t have a defined shape and is ever changing. This “place” for me is vast, isolated but accompanied, urgent and not quite real. It is a journey of moving without moving. It was important for me for it to have an organic presence, but also for it to have an end, a ceasing of the machine that it is. All sounds in the track were synthesized with Max MSP.

Llanura: plains (spanish)

Tiltpipes

Tiltpipes (2019) is a sound performance exploring the sounds of sand inside brass pipes and the meditative effects of transforming those raw sounds while still preserving them. An environment is created and then it eventually fades away. Tiltpipes uses the handmade instrument, contact mics, teensyduino, and the software Max MSP.

Video recorded in the Granoff Center at Brown University in Providence, RI in 2019.
Video is edited by Kristina Warren.