The Spring Seasons Collection
Spring Seasons is a living collection, in constant transformation. Its origin goes back to the emotional impact I felt upon hearing Vivaldi’s composition “Spring.” Its spirit of rebirth, fertility, and change—that moment when spring bursts forth after the silence, cold, and colorlessness of winter—awakened in me a deep need to create. For me, winter represents sadness, the end of something. But it is also the prelude to an awakening.
The first artwork in this series was Colores del alma, a painting originally created for a fundraising gala. Although I didn’t know then that it would be the beginning of an entire collection, that piece set the poetic, symbolic, and emotional tone that would later shape Spring Seasons. Its message and technical construction were the starting point of a visual language that evolved with each new piece.
That is why my works are filled with women, color, light, flowers, and butterflies. Women represent fertility, transformation, and strength. Butterflies, their metamorphosis. Flowers, the cycle of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age… but immortalized in art, as are good memories, love, even after everything has changed.
I incorporate crystals, enameled metals, resins, and objects like hummingbirds, iguanas, nails, hearts, and golden glows. Each has a meaning: love, pain, wounds, beauty, the duality between outer shine and inner silence. Because not everything that shines is alive, and not all beauty is joy. Spring also has its gray moments.
Technically, I fuse natural pigments with modern resins, because I want to honor both the old and the new. I am inspired by the natural dyes used by Indigenous artisan women to embroider their fabrics, and I encapsulate that work in resin because I want it to endure. Just as I wish those stories, knowledge, and memories—often forgotten—could also be eternal.
Each piece in Spring Seasons was created at different moments over nearly six years. Some form collections of three works inspired by the same theme, but with their own identities. Such is the case of In my heart, Beautiful Scars, and Golden Butterfly.
The titles speak for themselves: Come to Me, Beautiful Scars, Golden Butterfly, In My Heart, Colors of the Soul, No One Knows Me… They are fragments of lived stories. As a multidisciplinary artist, I combine muralism, photography, and design in each work. Because my art doesn’t just want to look beautiful: it wants to tell truths, embrace causes, and leave behind a memory..
The Story of Jovita: The Soul That Sparked a Cause
I met Jovita at a market in Oaxaca. She was an older woman, strong but fragile, selling fruits and vegetables while embroidering beautiful napkins with threads she dyed herself, using natural pigments. She lived alone, in a small house made of sticks and cardboard at the top of a hill. Her husband had gone to the United States many years ago and never returned. Her children also abandoned her, like butterflies that take flight and never come back.
In the market, people appreciated her. They gave her food, bought from her when they could. Even though she was already sick and tired due to age, she kept embroidering, sitting on the ground, right by one of the market entrances. She spent her days there, calm, with threads in her hands and a serene gaze that hid many stories.
One day, like any other, she arrived at the market, sat down… and never got back up. Everyone thought she was asleep, as she often did, but no: Jovita had passed away, quietly, sitting in the same place where she had lived so much of her life. She died alone, as she had spent the last years of her life.
When my friend Carlos — with whom I would later found MUMA — told me what had happened, I cried like never before. I knew Jovita. Her story, her passing in solitude, pierced my soul. It was at that moment that I knew I had to do something. I couldn’t allow more women like her to remain invisible, ignored by a society that so often forgets those who need help the most.
That’s how MUMA – Mujeres Mágicas was born. Not just as a support group, but as a community. A space where these women could feel seen, valued, heard. Where their embroidery wasn’t just craftsmanship, but art with history. Where their pain found companionship, and their talent, a place to shine.
With MUMA, we began bringing their embroidery to the United States. Not as products, but as unique works, full of life. They are displayed, sold, and all proceeds go directly to them: for their medication, their food, their medical consultations, their materials. For their dignity. So they know they are still here, that they matter, that their story hasn’t been forgotten.
The first piece I created for Spring Seasons, Colores del alma, was conceived for a fundraising gala in her honor. It was my emotional response to what I had experienced with Jovita, and unknowingly, it was also the beginning of a collection with a cause. Since then, every painting has been an extension of that commitment: to make visible, embrace, and sustain.
Anyone who acquires a piece from Spring Seasons doesn’t just take home art. They take home a life. A promise. A truth — a story of beauty turned into action.
The Magical Women of MUMA: Art that Transforms Lives
The embroidered pieces created by the members of MUMA — Mujeres Mágicas — have been exhibited at various cultural and community events, thanks to the valuable support of institutions such as Friends on Board, the Mexican Consulate in Detroit, Ford Hispano, Ford Motor Company, among others.
These exhibitions have not only brought visibility to the talent, history, and dignity of elderly artisan women from Oaxaca, Mexico, but have also generated direct resources to support their well-being. Each napkin, each embroidery, is a unique work of art that carries decades of ancestral knowledge, cultural memory, and resilience.
The MUMA project is not just a bridge between cultures — it is a living cause that transforms thread into hope, art into livelihood, and invisibility into recognition.