La Musa Se Pinta Sola
Mixed media on reclaimed panel, 2026
“A study of self-authorship, gaze, and the refusal to choose between creator and subject.”
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Hippie
Timeless Questions · Rebel Thought · Art for the Future
Philosophy for modern life, explored through art, astrology, culture, and a Chicana perspective.
Fig. 01 — untitled
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Current Obsessions
the contents of the research desk, this week
READING
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, on faith, doubt, and the family we can't outrun.
QUESTIONING
Is suffering necessary for transformation?
Or is that just a story we tell so the suffering means something.
MAKING
Reclaimed literary object, untitled
A gutted paperback becoming something that can hold your keys and your questions.
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The Archive
The intellectual universe, filed and cross-referenced.
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Philosophy
Old questions, asked again, without the robes.
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Astrology
A language for timing, not a substitute for choice.
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Art
Where the thinking becomes a thing you can hold.
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Ancestral Futures
What the old ways already knew about the world we're building.
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The Conscious Report
The news underneath the news.
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Rabbit Holes
One idea, followed all the way down.
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Featured Idea
Philosophy
Knowledge Should Liberate, Not Intimidate
Philosophy got cornered into universities and gatekept by footnotes. It was never supposed to be a locked room — it was supposed to be a fire everyone could sit at.
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Nepantla, or the Room Between Rooms
Collage, archival paper, ink on wood panel, 2025
“On living in the in-between — the space Anzaldúa named that most of us were never taught to claim.”
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Artifacts
Objects from the Chicana Hippie universe — not merch.
No. 001Originals
La Musa Se Pinta Sola
Mixed media on reclaimed panel — 2026
The original piece. One exists. This is it.
$2,400Collect
No. 014Prints
Nepantla, or the Room Between Rooms
Archival giclée print, 100lb cotton rag — 2025
Edition of 50
Museum-grade print of the original collage, numbered and signed.
$85Collect
No. 022Wearables
Timeless Questions Tee
Heavyweight cotton, hand-numbered ink stamp — 2026
The tagline, stamped like a manuscript proof. Runs true to size.
$42Collect
No. 007Literary Objects
Karamazov Clutch
Reclaimed hardcover novel, waxed thread, brass hardware — 2026
One of one
Built from a gutted, water-damaged copy of The Brothers Karamazov that couldn't be saved as a book, so it became something else.
$165Collect
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What We Believe
Knowledge should liberate, not intimidate.
- Human rights
- Literacy is a human right
- Self-determination
- Kindness
- Community
- Sustainability
- Ecological consciousness
- Constant evolution
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