Using emotion as a tool, the artist transcends the self to a higher degree of sensitivity. For me, religious, political, and cultural awareness make profound imagery in my work. Crosses, skulls, children many times secure the mood. Through my work, I become the interpreter of my own passages in time, my experiences and constant search for my cultural identity as a Chicana woman. As women we wear many masks trying to juggle or balance la vida. My art is a sequence of the passages of my life. There is always this silent struggle to survive as a mother, a worker, a woman, and especially as an artist. In my work I try to tell a story of passages of my own life or of those that have touched mi corazón.