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My practice moves
across sound art, music scores, live
drawing, mark-making, and mechanical
sculpture because the question I keep asking
cannot be answered by any single medium:
What remains irreducibly human when behavior
is increasingly structured by systems
designed to predict, replicate, and optimize
it? I work from the threshold — the
performer reduced to measurable output, the
automaton that trembles instead of
performing precision, the human and the
mechanical, grafted, without resolution.
That
threshold — between Humans as Machines
and Machines as Human — is not a metaphor.
It is where the work lives.
I keep coming back to
the same moments. In
Maquina Latina, the pre-score is
the recorded shape of a pianist's failure to
follow an accelerating metronome. On stage,
he follows his own prior failures — while
his stop-motion double runs on the screen
with him. In my
Monas,
off-center weights and irregular cams
capture exactly what a perfect mechanism was
designed to eliminate: hesitation,
vulnerability, the constant tremor of being
alive. In the
Post-COVID
Series I used aborted AI processes
to collapse images before they could
resolve, then drew the results by hand —
reintroducing hesitation where the algorithm
was forced to abort form. In
Teleprompter, the concert hall has
always been a teleprompter — an
institutional frame that tends to transform
reading into interpretation, compliance into
expression, and the performer's obedience
into the audience's aesthetic experience. In
Tent Visions I draw in the dark
forest, translating what my dog could sense
rather than what I could see.
I have lived between
Mexico and Germany for over twenty years.
That position — between cultures, between
social registers — is the biographical
version of the same threshold. I am
interested in what survives translation. And
in what, stubbornly, does not. The dog
senses. The automaton trembles. The pianist
becomes his own imperfect metronome. The
birds don't come. I feel that they know
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