Ceramic Sculpture

My sculptures are inspired by macroscopic and microscopic marine organisms: their form, movement, interactions, evolution and the scientific research that is behind them.

Cerámica escultórica

Mis esculturas están inspiradas en organismos marinos macroscópicos y microscópicos: en sus formas, movimientos, interacciones, evolución y en la investigación científica que se ha realizado sobre ellos.

Science Ilustration

I love co-creating info-graphics and illustrations for books, scientific papers and the web. I work with scientist and artist to explore the way in which knowledge is visualized and embodied.

Ilustración Científica

Me encanta co-crear infografías e ilustraciones para libros, manuscritos científicos y páginas web. Trabajo con los científicos y artistas para explorar las maneras en que el conocimiento se visualiza en incorpora en nuestro imaginario.

Teaching

I teach courses at the university, but I also offer workshops and talks for all ages on art+science. This year 2021 we will teach a new tutorial and online course on marine scientific Illustration of Chile

Educación

Enseño cursos de nivel universitario, pero también imparto talleres y doy charlas para todas las edades en una diversidad de temas. Este año realizamos un nuevo curso tutorial y online de Ilustración de la diversidad marina de Chile

"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing."

—Edward Tufte

“In nature nothing exists alone.”
— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Scientific illustrations are not frills or summaries; they are foci for modes of thoughts.”

—Stephen Jay Gould

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
— Rachel Carson

"Y de qué sirve un libro sin dibujos ni diálogos? - se preguntaba Alicia." Alicia en el país de las Maravillas

— Lewis Carrol

“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
—E. O. Wilson

“Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine it very differently.”
—Vik Muniz

“Las ilustraciones científicas no son adornos o resúmenes, son focos de distintos modos de pensamiento.”

—Stephen Jay Gould

“The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.”
— Rachel Carson

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
— Maya Lin

"And what is the use of a book- thought Alice - without pictures or conversations?" Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

—Lewis Carrol

"We talk far too much. We should talk less and draw more. I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic Nature, communicate everything I have to say in sketches."

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable"
—Robert Henri

“Dibujar no es sólo crear una imagen: dibujar es una manera de educar tus ojos, de entender información visual, de organizar esa información en una manera más jerárquica, más económica. Cuando ves algo, si dibujas frecuentemente, la examinas de manera muy diferente.”
—Vik Muniz

“Cuando has visto una hormiga, un pájaro, un árbol, no las has visto todas”
—E. O. Wilson

“Al final conservaremos solo lo que amamos, amamos solo lo que entendemos, y entendemos solo lo que se nos enseña"

—Baba Dium

“Drawing is not difficult, what is difficult is to observe.”

—Betty Edwards

“There is perhaps a new value on making by hand and at the scale of the body. For all the technological extensions that we occupy, we are visceral bodies and express ourselves through materials".

—Ann Hamilton