Pink & Stores (2018 - ongoing)
My obsession with business as art began as nostalgia over my own parents owning a linen store in Highland Park, California. It was called Belen's Linens and my family sold San Marcos cobijas along with popular designs in the 90s. We had sets of all the latest cartoons & franchises being marketed to kids. This was back when the bedding linen packs came with a fitted bed sheet, two pillowcases, a comforter, and a flat sheet. King, queen, XL, and twin.
Things are very different now, but I think about them a lot - especially when I enter family owned businesses - and what it means to own a business in the U.S. as working class immigrants and how that risk can be accidental, beautiful nostalgia to a kid.
Things are very different now, but I think about them a lot - especially when I enter family owned businesses - and what it means to own a business in the U.S. as working class immigrants and how that risk can be accidental, beautiful nostalgia to a kid.
Tropical Juice L.A. Highland Park
Unknown Dollar Store New York
Palabras Bilingual Bookstore Phoenix
Asiana Market Phoenix
La Purisima Bakery Phoenix
99 Cent Store Silverlake
Momo Toys DTLA
Greenwich Letterpress New York
Olivera Street Gift Shop Chinatown LA
Unknown Store Front New York
Nail Salon Los Angeles
Unknown New York
Whole Foods Los Angeles
Street Vendors Queretaro, Mexico
Archive of Nature (2017 - ongoing)
There is something that feels true about shooting people out in nature that I can't replicate in a studio environment. Some of these are shot on Iphone, some on digital cameras. Through the years I have gotten more comfortable with shooting people as they are vs. worrying so much about styling them and that is reflected here through the years.
B, Worker, 2025
Anna, Poet 2024
Yesika, Poet 2020
Self Portrait 2018
Clara, Painter 2017