2022-2025

Transmutations of a Diary is a series of 20 works in which I transform a deeply personal object — my own diary — into art. What began as pages filled with words during a time of loss and transition slowly became a visual language of color, gesture, and resilience.

Over the course of more than two years, I returned to this notebook, rereading, underlining, and intervening in its pages. Each sheet was re-imagined through layers of mixed media — acrylics, inks, washes, collage, kraft paper — until it no longer functioned as a diary, but as an autonomous work, holding both memory and transformation. The written word became a graphic element: at times erased, at times emphasized, always present as an intimate trace.

This process unfolded alongside journeys, displacements, and a return to the mountains of Venezuela where I grew up. There, surrounded by the landscape of my childhood, I reconnected with my roots and wove fragments of an old anatomy book into the work — as if dissecting my own story to recompose it anew.

The series as a whole is both a map and a mirror: each piece stands alone as an expression of an inner moment, while together they reveal a larger narrative of fragmentation, healing, and renewal. Like a kintsugi of paper, these works celebrate the possibility of repair — honoring scars, transformations, and the hidden beauty in the act of healing.