Overall my artwork features predominately women, who are almost always interlaced with nature. I am more familiar with the feminine body of course, but the concept of female for me is a wide range of ideas. For me it means power, resilience, it means courage, passion, family, community. These concepts are present in my daily life and with the people that I interact with. Moreover, I portray women with nature because the ideas I have about women do not stray far from my ideas of nature. The female body and nature meet in that they harbor the beauty of the creation of life.  Perhaps the most powerful culmination of the female body and nature that I portray is the Pachamama, or Mother Nature. The Pachamama is an Andean deity, so when I paint her, it is also a tether back to my roots in Peru. My immigration to this country strongly informs my work, as I didn’t start painting Pachamamas until I came to this country. I feel like I’m being dragged by my feet whenever I paint them, for although I love being here, a part of me still lives in Peru. The Pachamama is the part of me that’s over there, with my roots.