I started creating art before I even knew what it was called. I grew up on an island by the sea, and from a very young age, the relationship between body and water helped me understand the world around me. For me, art was a tool for processing emotions, memories, and silences that I did not yet know how to name. At first, it was something deeply intimate, almost private. Over time, I realized that the questions I explored in my work were not mine alone, and that many people recognized themselves in them. That is when I understood that art could become a place of encounter, a space to pause and look more closely at the world around us.

Sea Swell was born in Havana in 2018, in front of an ocean that, to me, is not simply a landscape, but a space filled with stories. I have always been interested in the idea that the sea does not erase, but returns things, just as the tide ebbs and flows. The water carries back bodies, memories, and absences that continue to exist within us, even when they are no longer visible on the surface. In Sea Swell, some bodies emerge while others have already disappeared, yet remain as silent traces upon the water. These bodies move between presence and absence, not as opposites, but as states of coexistence.