ARTIST STATEMENT

Being a visual artist is not confined to studio practice. It is a way of perceiving and interpreting the world through observation, analysis, and metaphor. Over thirty years ago, when I first encountered an illuminated X-ray in a medical examining room, I recognized it not merely as a diagnostic tool but as an image with profound symbolic and aesthetic potential. Since that moment, my artistic practice has centered on the intersection of Art, Science, and Medicine, repurposing clinical imagery as a vehicle for emotional and cultural expression.

I reinterpret these images through the lens of visual language, transforming their diagnostic function into one of emotional and symbolic resonance. I do not employ X-rays to serve clinical or didactic purposes; instead, I use them to evoke psychological states, metaphors of healing, and archetypes of human experience.

My work aligns with the principles of the medical humanities, a field that seeks to humanize the clinical gaze by bringing the subjective, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of the human condition into dialogue with scientific knowledge. I use medical images (X-rays, CT scans, brain cell photographs) not to analyze illness, but to explore the deeper metaphors of healing, identity, memory, and mortality. These fragments of the body become portals into broader questions: What does it mean to inhabit a body? How do we process loss, transformation, or the invisible interior self?

In series such as Covid Variations, Healing Figures, and The Day of the Dead, I layer clinical images with color, texture, and cultural symbolism. Whether honoring Mexican rituals, exploring neuroscience, or reflecting on resilience, I treat the body as both a biological archive and an emotional landscape. My work invites viewers to reconsider how science and spirit, flesh and memory, illness and recovery are not opposites, but parts of the same narrative arc.