Raised most of my childhood in the cities of Tijuana, Guadalajara, and Mexico City, I started drawing at the age of four on flour sacks. Crayons, as in the case of most kids, were my first encounter with color aside from the soot and the coal from my mother's stove. Later, came the paintings of dirt mixed with water at the high school workshop in Mexico. From 1982 to 1986 while in Tijuana, I discovered quill pens, inks and Nescafe, as well as the fun of heliographic copies. There I began large format canvases in oil. In 1987 I settled in Los Angeles where, apart from roaming through California, I experimented with printing press inks, oils, pigments, sand, scaling and scratching. The new graphics techniques, which I learned in Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, appeared as basic elements in my new work.