About me

I remember sneaking out during recess to the river that ran through my school, carefully climbing down the slope beside the little bridge, and collecting lichens and moss growing on the rocks.

Isolated from the human world, I found myself in love with the natural world. Life moves on and I left the jungles of Chiapas to study Industrial Design at the Tec de Monterrey in Guadalajara.

Walking the path of wonders of the creative world, I won the silver medal at the Starpack Design Awards 2015, a design competition held in London, England, organized by the IOMM3 (Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining) and I exhibited design pieces at the Tent London Design Festival also in 2015.

It was not until the penultimate semester of my degree in industrial design that I was able to rekindle my romance with nature; saddened by the knowledge of the ins and outs of industrial processes, I considered the possibility of changing my career, but an Italian professor showed me the way of Biomimicry, biology applied to design. This is how the biological romance that governs my existence resurfaced, leading me to study a Master in Sciences of Biomimicry at Arizona State University.

I also began teaching Biodesign and Climate Change classes at Tec de Monterrey, became a member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, Global Shapers, and completed certifications in Circular Economy (Ellen MacArthur Foundation) and Circular Design (Cradle to Cradle Products Institute).

I was a teacher at CEDIM School of Design in the Fashion Design degree, teaching Ethnography + Biophilia and Design Project classes; and at the Marist University I taught the Ecodesign class to graphic designers.

As part of my Master's Thesis project, I researched natural pigments as an alternative to synthetic pigments for the textile industry; research that continued in the years after completing my Master's studies in 2018.

I am a research artist on fungal pigments, traveling through the southeast of the country and exploring diverse ecosystems in search of ascomycete species that can reproduce under laboratory conditions.

I have successfully been able to extract pigments from the Hypoxylon genus for textile application, from some basidiomycetes as well, and cultivated the ascomycete Daldinia eschscholtzii obtaining pigmented mycelium that could be applied to textiles.

I have given talks and workshops to the Central Texas Mycological Society, the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society, California, and to the most abundant and knowledgeable company in natural pigments: Botanical Colors. You can click on the photos in the gallery above and it will take you to the videos.

I love mushrooms, seriously, I adore them, when a loaf of bread is filled with green mushrooms I sigh and if I find a red cage mushroom I go crazy with euphoria.

I guess the atypical beauty of these misunderstood creatures and their multiple and colorful expressions reminds me of my childhood self; curious, I wandered alone in the garden chasing spiders and butterflies while my parents worked. That hobby became a passion that leads me to investigate, democratize knowledge, explore and experiment with the infinite colors of nature.

Thank you for stopping by, welcome to Botanicum, where there are mushrooms all year round, the flowers never dry out and the pollinators fly free.