Ceramic-sculpture Humans

Humans is a series of high-temperature clay sculptures that emerged as part of my experience
as a migrant in California, particularly in the Bay Area, and finding myself immersed in a
multicultural society. A society that is mixing and producing new subcultures, new identities,
new human beings. This group of sculptures are the result of my reflection on diversity as the
main force for the creation of community. Within our diversity, being human is the central
principal that we have in common. From there, we can construct bridges of unity.
In creating this body of work, Humans, I used coils and slabs as the main construction
techniques; In this way, I refer to the clay sculpting techniques of ancient cultures from various
continents. I used clay as a medium since it is a material related to the creation of the human
being in different conceptions of the creation of the world. Establishing a relationship between
these myths and artistic creation, I focused on the concept of sculptures that represent a group
of beings that are in different states of meditation and introspection. Sculptures inspired by the
human shapes, but without a specific race, without a gender assignment, or colorization, since I
consider that by emphasizing these three social constructions, the differences between human
beings are accentuated. Influences for this body of work range from Japanese Haniwa
sculptures, through Native American Kachina dolls to Mayan and Mexica sculptures of deities.
Humans, its main objective is to reflect on the value of our human essence as a link to unify us
and find our own identity in diversity.