I come from a lineage of laborers, my grandparents were floorers and railroad workers in Chicago when they came to the United States from Mexico. Similar to my grandparents, my body is both a tool for making and the source from which meaning arises. I am intrigued by the sculptural possibilities of vinyl sheet flooring, a synthetic material made to perfectly reproduce the look of natural stone. I work primarily with a faux marble sheet vinyl, as a metaphor for our complex human desire for physical and emotional stability. I generate vien-like surface textures by applying paint directly onto my skin and lowering myself onto the surface via ropes and pulleys. I call these impressions “smooshes”, which are often cut out and reconfigured into new shapes, often inspired by nature or geometric contrast. Through a laborious process of cutting, chopping and shearing, I create objects that often are characterized by a compact static appearance or a more open rhythmic composition. I regularly add pure, intensely colored pigments to contrast the white tonality of the faux marble. A contrast that correlates to the prolonged controversy of polychromy in Greek and Roman marble sculpture.