INTRODUCTION

My encounter with the creative process began as early as age five. It was a strange and uneasy urge to create with objects found around my house in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Today my images come from within as if dictated by an invisible helper. Music, literature, philosophy and religion the unconscious of the world have become the foundation of my artistic life. 

In New York during the 1970's, I lived a period of artistic experimentation. psychedelic art; symbolic poetry and new music. The art of silk screen (which I was obliged to learn in Puerto Rico in my senior year of Jr. High School), helped me designed ankle socks and Punk Rock t-shirts for underground shops. It was a  cross-cultural experience and an adaptation to a cosmopolitan reality. 

I hitched-hike extensively through Europe and Morocco during the late 70s and the experience opened for me a new life. I moved to Paris, France in 1984 where I resided 8 years. In Paris I  explored Art-brute, Impressionism, Surrealism and the automatic process of painting; an experience which I owed to my contact with the founding members (of the now legendary) Paris-based Latin American Art movement, Magie-Image.

Ironically, the deeper I went into my artistic research in Paris, the closer I got to my Puerto Rican roots. In France I found the freedom I needed to explore my origins and thus integrate the different experiences in my being.

I returned to New York in 1992. In my new paintings I establish a world of unknown trees, mythical characters, visions, and rituals intertwined in modern reality. The Puerto Rican experience is suffused with a sense of mystery and discovery. My identity manifests itself in a highly subconscious process of painting. I rely on my intuition to create my next image. Symbolism plays an important part in this language. The paintings evolve over and over from an initial idea, open to synchronicity. A celebration of life in a dream-like state.