I am a Mexican American queer artist working primarily with oil paint, using portraiture as a means of self-examination. My paintings often center around my own body as subject and material, allowing the work to function as a reflective process of how I negotiate my identity, queerness, and cultural inheritance. I am interested in intimacy and how shifts in expression or gesture can hold complex emotional and conceptual weight. Working within the tradition of contemporary painting, my practice engages portraiture as a conceptual tool where representation becomes a site of questioning with no real resolution. My works exist in a space between visibility and uncertainty. I invite viewers into the ongoing conversation about selfhood.