Walking on Sunraysia

Mildura Arts Centre

199 Cureton Ave, Mildura VIC 3500

11 April - 15 June 2025

Official Opening 12 April 2pm

  As I walk on this land in Sunraysia, Latji Latji and Barkinji Country, I experience vivid images of the flora and fauna that peak to me. Each bird, reptile, tree and animal have a story or a message offering me exquisite deep beauty and abundance. Illumination and alignment with creation are on offer on my journeys. 

The earth holds energies and are embodied in each creature and plants along my journeys. Magical opportunities are present when I focus and attend to the moment. I am driven by Inspiration to honour their energies and the omens they offer me from the spark of sightings. 

In my own culture (Mexico) we believe that the animal kingdom holds an animal double. Each encounter is an announcement of my relationship with my nahuali, an Aztec word for “shadow soul” a bond with that animal, bird, tree, or reptile. 

My art is an expression of those deep connections metamorphized by sounds, body expressions, and vivid colours. I increase my awareness, understanding, respect and appreciation of all living things in those moments. They seek me out by offering me an opportunity to obtain wisdom, guidance and insight into life. 

In the process of creativity, I enter a zone of awareness, I am connected and aligned. My intention is to symbolically be open to messages they offer me and reconstruct those observations in the creative practice. 

I attempt to weave within and between each species in the dynamic landscapes I encounter honouring their spirit, with colours, shapes and movement transforming those rendezvous. They hold a mirror to the mystery, for me art evokes the deep primal beauty that cannot be articulate in language but rather in images. 

I grieve that one day most of what I observe, and encounter will be destroyed and so this is my chance to connect with and remember them. We need animals, nature, and wildness, we need their spirit to enrich our lives and the planet.