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Chiribiquete, my 2024 solo exhibition—originally titled Dance of Gestures—traced the evolution of my practice through gesture, calligraphy, and ancestral memory. The first title reflected my desire to explore calligraphy as movement, blending the fluidity of Japanese ink painting with the angular forms of Gothic script.
As the work evolved, I began drawing from the pre-Columbian pictographs of Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park. This led to Asemic Writing, a phase marked by my discovery of calligraffiti—a fusion of calligraphy, graffiti, and typography.
Eventually, the exhibition was renamed Chiribiquete, at the suggestion of my friend and fellow artist Miguel Roa Iruegui, who encouraged me to honor the source of inspiration directly.
The exhibition was part of the Sawyer Yards program at Sabine Street Studios’ East Corridor Gallery in Houston, Texas. It ran from July 18 to August 31, 2024.
My Butterfly Wings series has been exhibited several times, though never with all 29 prints shown together. This is the only photo I have of one of those exhibitions. It took me several years to feel that the series was truly complete. Over time, I changed cameras more than once and traveled through parks and butterfly sanctuaries in both the U.S. and Colombia. Many of the images were also captured in the corridor of my father’s house, where every morning the light would fill with butterflies. It was a slow and intimate process—collecting wings, not with a net, but with my lens and my attention.
