This collection of imagery is for celebrating the outcasts, the queers, the eccentric creatives who also represent their passions and preserve their cultures through the DIY/underground scenes.
As an artist, I have a profound duty to use my skills to create social practices that can shift the needle towards bettering my community, archive the efforts and identies of those who I build spaces with, and disrupt the evils that seek to erase and destroy. In a city that is constantly shifting and undergoing hyper-development and gentrification, I use this space to archive, document, and preserve the landscape and community that have shaped everyday Miami a Miami which can often be overlooked or forgotten, and is rapidly dissapearing. This is the American culture I identify as, within local, niche, campy, and quirky Miami, underground Miami, Queer Miami, and Caribbean + South American immigrant culture Lasting memories and influential culture can be made when people can feel both out of their comfort zone and simultaneously showcased as their true selves.
I have found myself, destroyed myself, reclaimed myself, and loved myself a in all of these spaces.