Cuba has always been in a recession since the 1960s. That means that most of the things are outdated and old. I grew up like a 90s kid even though I was born in 2003. To entertain myself, I used to watch dusty VHS tapes on old curved screen TVs and playing baseball with a broomstick and a tennis ball. I was always fascinated with technology. At five years old, I unscrewed and opened an RC car I got a couple day after Los Tres Reyes Magos. Young me was trying to figure out how it worked and moved around without wires connecting to it. I was a curious boy.
Coming to the U.S felt like time traveling. Everything was so different from where I had come from. I remember coming out of the plane and already feeling like I was in the future. The roads outside filled with tiny light reflectors that glowed like stars that night. Air conditioning that blasted cold air into my face in the car. I still have no word to describe that experience back in 2011. Sitting in front of a computer for the first time and browsing the internet was also a weird experience to say the least. I just sat there and clicked on every little tab to examine it. I caught up fast. I looked up things that I had dreamt about: flying cars, jetpacks, and planets. My mind was blown to pieces. Then I discovered YouTube. All those things I had looked up in Google were now in videos. Unmanned submarines exploring every feet of the legendary sunken Titanic. Boston Dynamics and its robots that never fell to the ground when kicked or pushed. All these things fueling and feeding my imagination to this day.
I want people to get a different view every time they look at my work. I draw and make what five-year-old me would want to see and what future me see. That’s what a lot of my drawings reflect; curiosity, imagination and the future. They represent younger me and younger you. They inspire the next generation to follow their heart so that they can make their dreams come true.
-Scholastic Art & Writing Awards - Silver Key Winner 2017
-Florida Scholastic Press Association (FSPA) Won "Best of the Best" Title Five Times
Consecutively 2018-2020