About

I am a Colombian multi-disciplinary artist working in Los Angeles, California. Having started my professional life as a business reporter and magazine editor, I went on to forge a career as a tv and film producer that has span for more than two decades - profile on IMDB and all. 

 Call it lockdown existentialism  or a severe mid-life crisis, but the turmoil of the past years set in motion a process of reflection and self-discovery that prompted my return to the only thing I have been passionate about since I flung my first spoonful of baby food at a wall: art.

As an introverted, shy kid I began copying comics and illustrated books to escape the social anxiety I felt in school and family gatherings. Amused by my resolve, one day my paternal grandmother threw a thick orange book on the table I was drawing on and said with a smirk and a wave of her cigarette: “If you’re going to copy someone, copy him”. I was old enough to be able to read my last name in bold letters across the hard cover of this book. It turned out a relative of mine had been Colombia’s most notorious political cartoonist in the 1920’s before he committed suicide in 1931. The superheroes and anthropomorphized animals  of the comic books suddenly seemed silly and unimportant next to his characters, and I began obsessively copying Ricardo Rendon’s political caricatures. I obviously didn’t understand the political context or recognize any of the people he was portraying, but I appreciated his overall tone and the line of his drawing made me feel something indescribable. There were just the right amount of lines and there was something very satisfying about the shapes and volumes that they described, and the way he placed them.  

That’s the satisfaction that I chase through drawing (later painting) and photography.

Two decades of making films, mostly documentaries, too many years of reading The Economist, and having a political cartoonist as my first idol (and many other cartoonists after that - like KAL from The Economist ) has made it impossible to refrain from trying to comment on the times we live in. So here I am, trying to bear witness and ask questions rather than making heady statements, because I read somewhere that’s what good art does.