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I’m a queer latinx illustrator and designer based in Denmark.

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Open to illustration and graphic design projects.

I’m specially interested in the fields of FASHION, ART, EVENTS and anything QUEER, but open to talk about new exciting topics. So let’s have a coffee :D

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Curretly working on:


FAILING MAKING CLIMATE

To understand how the climate crisis may provide a vocabulary to think (with) the body and the gesture, and how tuning in with and to the environment can inform a sensuous position of the body within political crises. The intention was to imagine agency from our embedded positions as subjects of anthropogenic climate change.

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SOFTER WAYS OF QUEER RESISTANCE

What are alternative ways of queer resistance that make an impact in the world without taking such a toll on the mental health of people who choose to do activism? A social-artistic investigation visualized by a series of illustrated textile pieces with the objectives of educating and starting a conversation about activism fatigue.

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SPECULATIVE QUEER MYTOLOGIES

Handmade painted ceramic project where I illustrate imaginary myths of queerness and queer love.
In ancient times, myths were created to explain natural or social phenomena. Many times involving supernatural beings or events. If queerness was mainstream in ancient western societies, what sort of myths would be created to explain it?


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DREAMDATA

Illustrations for content marketing, social media and animated videos for Danish B2B Attribution Software company Dreamdata.

Animation
︎︎︎Max Halley

NOT A PLACE I HAVE TO HIDE IN

This poster-book is an illustrated project that investigates the relationship of queerness and the act of getting tattooed as a way of reclaiming your body.
        According to intersectional theory (in a very simplified way) you can't separate or remove social categorizations that are the center of systems of opression an individual faces.
        To give attention to that theory I made special glasses that allow you to analogically "remove" the body from the illustrated portraits and see only the tattoos. this is a way of giving light to the fact that bodies are political and the meaning of tattoos are connected to the meaning of the body in a deep level for the person carrying the tattoos and for the other observing it.

SPECULATIVE QUEER MYTHOLOGY

In ancient times, myths were created to explain natural or social phenomena. Many times involving supernatural beings or events.
        I often wonder: if queerness was mainstream in ancient western societies, what sort of myths would be created to explain it?
        In this little speculative illustrated project, I visualize imaginary myths of queerness and queer love.