This body of work explores movement, color, and transformation through an immersive space. Blue light, neon color, and organic shapes create a transformative experience. This world-creating process is a contemplative journey that unites the land and culture of my homeland to my day-to-day life. Originally from Santa Fe, NM, this work reflects my experience growing up in the rural desert.

This piece contemplates how the mind is influenced by environments, considering the vast impact a surreal terrain can have on one’s mental well-being. Influenced by New Mexican landscapes, where the mountain cascades into vast plains and the entire sky fills with Aurora-like colors each morning and night, I create a place in which abstract shapes and neon color become the norm. This installation intends to produce a euphoric and introspective experience by transforming commonplace objects such as those seen in a home office. Through this experience, you can contemplate how to bring the surreal into your own day-to-day environments in a manner that still feels like home, a mesh between the extraordinary and the comfortable.