Beast performed wearable living dioramas using various media and techniques to embody the environmental crisis and expose parallels to society's treatment of women, inspiring dialogue for change.

At the time I  wrote,  "..to anthropomorphize the environmental crisis.." before the term Chthulucene entered the public lexicon. Which I may have used instead of anthro.

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Through my interpretation of Nordic mythologies and landscape, I aim to create work that defines an intersection between emotions and our perception of the environment. In a way, this project was the start of my work in decolonizing myself. Better understanding the relationship between myself and my parents, particularly my Mother’s deeply rooted bigotry and my Father hiding his family’s Mexican heritage. 

 

I utilize glass as a primary medium because of its ability to convey flow, water/ice, movement, light and organic forms, which is unrivalled. Quite often people viewing my work believe the illusion, thinking I have sculpted ice, or captured living organisms somehow within the glass.