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I have used my artwork previously as a vehicle to help me explore and to understand more my culture and its traditions. Most importantly I have discovered the tight bond that keeps me connected with my ancestors.

Last year, in my need for closure to a lingering and distant love affair, and in an attempt to understand myself as a woman in love, I painted to confront, penetrate, and define an aspect of my life I was unhappy with. The driving fuel for this new series of work "Corazon de Siete Años" is this experience of love.

The turbulent cycles of this affair took me through a full sphere of other feelings. By embracing the excitement, ecstasy, rejection and loneliness through my painting, I was able to further develop my artistic discipline by challenging myself to materialize these feelings onto canvas.

As I worked on each painting, I experimented with new mediums to convey all aspects of the feelings I was reliving. The work varies from using a cold metallic surface of copper sheet for painting an image of great sadness to using raw Belgian canvas to convey the natural beauty one feels when being in love.

I experienced a unique and wonderful aspect of being, of life, and of being in love with another soul. So why not share it with others? I welcome an audience in hope that they will connect to their own experience with love. These paintings have been the chicken soup for my soul to recover from my love sickness and through my personal art therapy I am ready to love whole-heartedly once again.

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