My artistic history began when I was 7 year’s old in San Jose, Costa Rica. I was small, with a very quiet voice. I never had lunch in my school because the big boys pushed me out of the line. Even if I screamed nobody would hear me. Then a refugee from Cuba, Elena came to my class, who had a strong voice that could be heard 100 meters away. We had to write and draw a painting from everyday life in a book that was called “Book of Life”. My teacher always told me how good my work was. Elena always had negative comments because she hated painting. She knew I had problems with my lunch and she with her homework paintings. Elena proposed to me to paint her work and she would buy my food. This was my first A commission of work. Painting for food.

Inspired by faces of women and children showing their feelings becomes a challenge for me to reflect in my paintings. In some way I see myself in all those children alone, solitary, absent, wanting for someone to understand them and give love, fighting for a better world. This probably originates from the lack of affection and disaffection from my mother. I take out the girl inside me and let her, live in an imaginary world accompanied by subtle creatures. They with can also be coarse and funny as seen in my pottery. The kid who inspired me and touched my feelings to work with kids in my collection of Holocaust Children was Ruby Bridges. She was a little black girl, 7 years old in a elementary school in Louisiana New Orleans, during the desegregation crisis in 1960. The sensuality and eroticism can be seen in my works of women, roses, and nature which are derived from Dali, Klimt, Georgia O'kefee, also my Costa Rican master teachers that guided my studies - Francisco Alvarado Abella, Max Rojas, Soraya Goigochea, Rodolfo Rojas Rocha, Isabel Naranjo.