"I have always felt "not white; not brown; just beige" as the text accompanying one of my early digital works says. My current artwork explores these feelings of cultural disconnection and the idea of the creation of personal/social identity. My digital collages include symbols of my Mexican heritage juxtaposed with my background growing up in a middle class American family in California. The layering of images to create a final piece is the visual equivalent of the layering of experience that creates who I am."