Artist Statement:
Spanglish was made over two trips to Antigua, Guatemala, in 2021 and 2022, but it feels like it was made somewhere between two worlds—one that I could see and touch and another that was entirely internal. I went to Guatemala with my camera, determined to see what might surface when I looked through the lens in a place I’d never been before. What I found was both beautiful and disorienting.
The photographs come from an instinctive, almost compulsive process, driven by the feelings that hung over me during those trips: guilt, loneliness, wonder, love, and the frustrating inevitability of misunderstanding. In a way, Spanglish is less about a specific place and more about the peculiar spaces we inhabit when we’re caught between knowing and not knowing, belonging and not belonging. These images are my attempt to navigate that liminal space, one where the external world and the inner self inevitably collide.
