Figuras

My new series, “Figuras“ is a collection of figurative studies using primarily watercolor and pencil on paper.

While working on “autorretrato,” I found myself in my home studio going back and forth between songwriting and beatmaking and sketching and painting. Doing this for days on end, during the pandemic, helped me find connection between these different textures and realize how I could present some of the themes in my music through visual mediums.

In “Figuras,” I study the female body in movement, almost to present these women in the act of listening to and reacting to their own music. By using lighter, quicker strokes and lots of water, the figures were able to emerge organically and even start to drip off the page, which I felt reflects the same aesthetic as the songs on my album, where I was emphasizing the inability of others to confine me, or other women, to the spaces we are relegated to. I chose watercolor and pencil instead of thick oil paints because I wanted to explore lightness and softness, like the themes on my album “REINA”, in tandem with poses that embody strength and the force of movement (“autorretrato”); a pairing that to me encompasses the beautiful duality of feminine energy.