Sculpture

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Words Hurt

This was a two-part project to create a wearable sculpture out of 100 of the same object and then make a performance video with it on. This entity I turned myself into is the personification of hateful words used against me when I was bullied throughout my school years.

The space between

Sometimes I find myself thinking of life and death, the ultimate juxtaposition, or the Black and white of existence. Only once have I been in a situation where death could have been present but life persevered. During that moment I thought of the space between these two forces and wanted to manifest it into a physical object.

The Orlando 49

This piece was a found object sculpture centered around the night of June 12, 2016, when an armed ISIS radical unloaded an AR-15 into a Crowd at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando Florida, killing 49 and injuring 53 people. This piece was especially difficult to make given that around 2016 is when I came out to my family and friends as gay. This piece is designed to memorialize those who were taken from us in such violent ways. The candles each have a name engraved on it and the age of the victim. The bottles in which they were placed on top to represent the nightlife that is so prevalent in the LGBTQ community. Each bottle has one or many bullets in them to represent the violence of that night and how some victims had not just one but many bullets in them. My design also wanted to represent the violence and destruction of that night. The broken glass scattered around the piece depicts the scene of the crime ever stating the atrocity that happened that night.

| Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old | Amanda L. Alvear, 25 years old | Oscar A. Aracena Montero, 26 years old | Rodolfo Ayala Ayala, 33 years old | Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old | Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old | Angel Candelario-Padro, 28 years old | Juan Chavez Martinez, 25 years old | Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old | Cory James Connell, 21 years old | Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old | Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old | Simón Adrian Carrillo Fernández, 31 years old | Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old | Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old | Peter Ommy Gonzalez Cruz, 22 years old | Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old | Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old | X Frank Hernandez, 27 years old | Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old | Javier Jorge Reyes, 40 years old | Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old | Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old | Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25 years old | Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old | Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old | Brenda Marquez McCool, 49 years old | Gilberto R. Silva Menendez, 25 years old | Kimberly Jean Morris, 37 years old | Akyra Monet Murray, 18 years old | Luis Omar Ocasio Capo, 20 years old | Geraldo A. Ortiz Jimenez, 25 years old | Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old | Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old | Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old | Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old | Jean Carlos Nieves Rodríguez, 27 years old | Xavier Emmanuel Serrano-Rosado, 35 years old | Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old | Yilmary Rodríguez Solivan, 24 years old | Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old | Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old | Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old | Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24 years old | Juan Pablo Rivera Velázquez, 37 years old | Luis Sergio Vielma, 22 years old | Franky Jimmy DeJesus Velázquez, 50 years old | Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old | Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old |

“Here, take it. You wont use me again”

This piece is a two-part self-portrait of my experience with men in this dating era. I am someone who opens up and trusts very easily and can be naive to others’ intentions with me. This piece was inspired after getting led on for an entire summer and was made out to be the villain.

Welded linear steel stock with 22 gauge sheet metal

Fallen Faith

This piece has so much context that I can’t fit it all on this page. As I’ve grown up witnessing how awful institutions of religion can be, it has made me question my own faith. A wooden pulpit demonstrates a pure religion but the thorns of the hateful and ignorant metal vines keep those who want to seek him out away. This piece isn’t saying that all institutions of religion are bad but they wish to protect the goodness of the pure faith (the unserrated edge wire). blooming flowers being the father, son, and holy spirit being the focal moments in the piece and focal parts of my religion.

Make it

Earthly Reflections

I promise I can make fun and happy pieces. This was a piece I entered to the Earth Day/International Sculpture Day conference in Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, OH. The dodecahedron (a 12-sided platonic solid) represents the world with a reflective mylar film interior indicating that the well-being of the world is reflective of our actions.

Used and left confused

And right back into it. In short. Some men suck. This wax form with a metal armature underneath depicts the all too familiar feeling of being used for your body and then left high and dry wondering if it was even real.