My work is based on the ideas of commemoration, religion, temporality and ancestors. For years, I have studied iconic ancient works, but only from afar through images. With this project I intend to have the opportunity to research, reference and work with ancient sculptures of gods through a self-directed commemorative pilgrimage, continuing with a series of sculptures and drawings over the next three years.

For the last six years, I have been working on a series of sculptures, assemblages, and drawings called Ephemeral Memorials. The series is based on my cultural origins in Mexico and my continuing interest in commemoration and the never-ending process of becoming. A group of pieces up to 40,000 years old have been a conceptual, material and formal source in my work. I have longed to have the opportunity to see in person and work with these objects often based on gods from different eras and geographical areas in the world, combining these sources with my immediate interactions with religion and divinity, this perspective being from Catholicism and its images. However, most of the ancient sculptures and figures that I am interested in visiting are in distant museums or collections. I used a grant in a research trip, generating my own pilgrimage that consisted of a structured and rigorous itinerary of museum visits, archival research and interviews with specialists. These elements are the beginning of the work that I intend to deepen, called Memorials Pilgrimage.