This body of work was shaped through ancestral leather techniques passed on through direct apprenticeship.

I was introduced to this way of working by the only practitioner in the region still using these methods A maker, teacher and steward of pre-Hispanic craft.

The learning was relational rather than instructional.

Techniques were absorbed through proximity, repetition and respect for process

These pieces carry lineage rather than authorship.

They are not reproductions of the past, but continuations

shaped with restraint, and held in dialogue with the present