"Mi Tesoro is a film about exploring the human heart. Made between October 2024 and July of 2025. From Sicily to SF. Before creating this film, I dealt with feelings of confusion and anger thinking of what I had to offer to the world. I wanted to make something that has never been seen before but this is almost impossible. Instead I brought this far lost concept of non-monetary wealth up to the front line.…

"An archival film that encapsulates everywhere I am coming from, everywhere I'm going to, and everyone and everything I've come to love since I was the ripe age of 15. From the sirens of my favorite band, 'Y La Bamba' recorded off my iPhone, to photographs of the women in my family that shaped my understanding of the world, all cut between artwork I created when I was young and discovering what storytelling meant to…

"This is a collage of various screencaps: a Thee Lakesiders YouTube video, a Foo's Gone Wild Instagram reel, a rimz.gif video of an old red car driving to 'Shawty' by T-Pain, and an image of Betty Boop. This piece is meant to evoke Chicano aesthetics and honor Chicano image making, reviving the radical tradition of rasquachismo."

"I don't believe revival is separate from us. It lives in our gathering, in the ways we return to one another. When I photographed the Dominican Day Parade, I felt how the act of celebrating becomes a practice of remembering, of refusing erasure. In that space, past and future collapse into something shared, something that insists on being seen. These photographs are guided by that insistence, a small offering to the continuities that keep us…

"In this zine, I share writings and moments with my dad, my grandmother, and friends. I've been thinking a lot about labor, and what is asked of us and our bodies. I dream of my people being valued for more than what they can produce."

"Memory is crucial to revival. In my dreams is where the past present and future intertwine, both history and personal heritage thrive. In order to revive we must identify the past that made us who we are today. I used pictures from my own childhood, my Mom, Dad and Grandma's, as well as an image of a group of Adelitas/Soldaderas."