Alone in the world

Hawaiian palm trees in Noir

I love driving around this black and white Paradise, I love blasting music in the car and getting lost in the corners of the island, I’m surrounded by beautiful palm trees, away from all…

Birthday chica

Another year far away from everything, I’m grateful to be here and be able to have a roof and enjoy the ocean.

it feels like this is just a life experiment to me, I’m learning and loving myself in many ways, Happy Birthday to me.

año 1

1 año living on a Distant Island

Clouds over mountains

I’ve been tricked and trapped on a different dimension, I don’t have any clues of how I got this far but I’m here for an unknown amount of time, could be forever. I feel on hold, like I’m between eras and in between people I don’t know at all. I’m also unknown.

Soy las rosas, you're my ocean

I will never stop doing what I love,

I love the simple things in life,

the ocean brings me joy, it reminds me of how big and tiny things are,

I see so much beauty everywhere

and at the same time so much dirt and crazyness.

This is a whole new world.

Coming to an end

Hey,

As March coming to an end I’m feeling proud of how I’ve manage to stay afloat and hopeful to an unknown future, I’m certain more challenges are around the corner for me and even tho I can’t make as much art as I’d want to, I will try to stay creative at my 2 jobs. Always grateful for the people who gives me the opportunity to work.

I’m so lucky to be here, I don’t understand how I even landed so far.

Cheers to the last week of the month and I can’t wait to see what’s in the books for this Spring.

Thank you,

T.

Postcards from a distant island

I’ve started a series of small paintings and some photographs inspired by the Island of Oahu, they’re available to purchase, let me know is you’re interested.

Measurements are 12”x12” and 4”x4”

Thank you for the Birthday wishes

I feel incredibly grateful to be able to celebrate my time alive in such a beautiful place with good friends I love, I felt loved and got the blessings of a double rainbow the following morning of my actual birthday.

I couldn’t do everything I had planned because is just impossible to do so much in one day but I took myself to the Botanical Garden in the morning, had ramen for lunch, did some Grocery shopping and I went to my favorite bar at the beach for a Piña Colada.

My favorite part of the day was my time with my friends Luis and Dora and a fun Facetime call with my favorite NY peeps!, we went for Happy Hour at another favorite bar on the North Shore and had dinner at a Tapas restaurant we all tried for the first time.

My mom called, my best friend’s called. Thank you all for the Birthday wishes, YOU ALL MADE ME SMILE…

My dessert was banana empanadas with Vanilla Ice cream

Surfing with mi amiga aDora-da

Michelada the Day after to keep the vibe going

I had to make my favorite lunch from back home, these are called “picadas”

Bday rainbow

Happy Birthday to my dear brother whom is a wonderful human, hardworking, epic father and funny guy, from far away I wish to the stars you’re happy and well,

A rainbow showed up right after our phone call, meant to be for you.

Te quiero Nando.

Perdón que me fuí y no volví.

swimming in the middle of a Distant Island.

When it was my time to go in the water,  the sun wasn’t even out because a big cloud was covering its light, I swam towards the others while adjusting the snorkel and within seconds I saw the sharks swimming below me, they were in different levels, some seemed very distant and others way closer to us, a bunch of them.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY CULLEN MORRIS

I felt so little, so alone and so full of life at the same time, I was in the middle of an ocean I don’t know, with people I’ve never seen in my life surrounded by sharks and the immensity of the ocean. Not too long after we dove into the water, rain started to pour over us and a beautiful rainbow appeared on the horizon, sun was out but still kinda hidden in between clouds, it was so magical, it was too much! Way too much, I’m happy to share this moment with you all, I’m forever wishing to share these experiences with people I love but I’m too long gone, too far away.

Thank you Cullen Morris, he was part of the crew and he got to snap beautiful photos like the ones in this post. Can you believe these ?

I’m forever grateful for my health first of all, second grateful for being up to a challenge.

Gracias por leerme  and Aloha to you all,

Bomba.

DAGGER

“I’m gonna rip your heart out

and bury it in the sand,

so the ocean can take it away”

 
 

This is my self protection amulet, my weapon.

In a symbolic way, I wanna use this dagger for stealing someone’s heart and at the same time to protect myself from a broken heart.

I’ve carried this piece from New York to Los Angeles, California, I had it in my lap and sometimes under my seat on the plane, we made it to Laguna where I thought I would move for the winter but there were other plans cooking in the meantime.

I took my dagger to one of my favorite beaches there at Sunset time but I wasn’t happy with how it looked with the orange tones from the sunset and I had no time to try another day so I had to wait a couple months until I got to my final destination and felt good to light it up. Finally February reminded me I had to use it so I could finally cut your chest in half and rip your heart out…