Being Cuban, Puerto Rican and bilingual, my upbringing was pure struggle, consisting of a range of inherited traumas, both cultural and familial. This led me to pick up the camera as a way to create a new language for myself; a renewed way to be in the world and make sense of this inheritance. Seeking emotional truth, intimacy, empathy, and sensuous light, my practice is a balance between cinematographic, candid framing and collaboration with my subjects. My work explores ideas about liberty, freedom of expression, autonomy, as it relates to the human condition.