ABOUT ME
Globe Trotter Based in Texas
My Roots
I’ve been sailing since 2018! I spent my formative years overseas in the rural areas of Medellín, Colombia. This experience significantly shaped my personality and worldview from the ages of twelve to eighteen. My mother immersed me in her culture, which profoundly influenced my social interactions, creative pursuits, and insatiable passion for travel and global exploration as well as my love for diverse cuisine. After graduating in 2020 with a BFA in Painting, I decided to move to Houston and pursue tattooing even further. I travel frequently throughout Texas to tattoo and it always feels like home! Beyond my artistic endeavors, I love connecting with others through tattooing, embarking on solo travel adventures, savoring the culinary delights of life, and indulging in my favorite pastime: sushi. I often spend my free time running, taking myself out to dinner, buying plane tickets, researching art online, obsessing over tattoo history, listening to music or enjoying silence when I get the chance, watching tv is very rare for me but I will every now and then to get some sort of visual inspiration outside of other medias. 

My Inspiration
My artistic interests encompass a diverse range of tattooing styles, including primarily traditional, but also love dabbling in neo-traditional, fineline, lettering, and blackwork. A fun fact about me is that I should’ve majored in printmaking in college but didn’t and found my love for this media a bit too late.
I draw inspiration from musical genres such as salsa, reggaeton, dembow, latin music in general, acid rock, emo, punk rock, and hip-hop/rap/funk. I enjoy balance, controversy, asking questions, making people laugh, evoking an emotion of any sort and spending my time drawing as much as I can.
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Pop culture and Art appropriation also serve as a significant source of inspiration for me. My favorite old school pioneering tattooers are Maud and Gus Wagner, whose stories and experiences profoundly influenced my creative journey before I started my apprenticeship. I found myself going back to their imagery and history back then and still do to this day. I make every effort to visit art museums by appreciating both fine art and underground art forms to continue to push myself into creating, artistic development, and pleasure in general.​
My Work
I am committed to promoting unconventional tattooing practices. For me that’s what tattooing has always represented, pop shops, carnivals, dime museums, the odd, the uncommon, the grotesque and overall just very good storytelling through imagery. Traditional tattooing originated as a form of artistic expression that challenged societal norms and critiqued various aspects of American culture, including the pursuit of the American dream, sex, politics, drugs, rock and roll music…I’d like to continue changing the idea of the “Boys Club Only” narrative of tattooing by poking fun at the subculture even more. My goal is to further expand these ideas by incorporating imagery that celebrates queer love, juxtaposes unusual visual experiences encountered during travel, the realm of hallucinogens, the human experience, dreams, and erotic art.
