That’s when I first did doing art-based experiments… repeating characters from the media with my parents. I would tell him, “Again, and again, and again.” Then I started trying to draw Batman, and I was frustrated because I couldn’t draw as well as my dad. And then I’d say, “Draw Batman again.” And he would draw Batman again. I would tell my dad, “Draw Batman,” and he would draw Batman. I grew up around my grandma’s painting studio. My maternal grandmother is a painter from the Brazilian Amazon and met my grandfather in Rio de Janeiro in architecture and art school. My dad would always show me those paintings-these sci-fi space stations that were abstract. My dad’s favorite painter was Roberto Matta, a surrealist from Chile. My parents met through architecture school, so I grew up around my parents’ architecture practices. It was a lucky upbringing because I grew up around all these artists in their 60s and 70s. The landscape around my city is very mountainous, and we had areas up the mountain with a lot of fog, liminal spaces where the ground and sky would meet.
I grew up in Cali, Colombia, a city with a pretty small art world. How did this upbringing push you into a creative practice? You grew up in Colombia and a multigenerational family of artists and architects.
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