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A passion for beauty, simplicity, and improvisation informs my vision for Splace. In my native Mexico, I grew up with a keen appreciation of that culture's mystical and spontaneous elements, it's idiosyncratic adaptability, and historical richness. This, blended with a European sensibility inherited from my German father –a well respected architect, helped me to develop a unique sense of style and an instinctive eye for the visual and conceptual arts.

In North America, I honed my design skills and later channeled them through the study of language structuralism, to produce conceptual art and photography, I became a creative director at consultancies in advertising, interactive media, industrial design, branding, and product development, to later more accurately define myself as an 'inter-notional catalyst' –a blend between free radical thinker and conceptual creator. I always felt torn between the practical world of design consultancy and a passion for conceptual art, typography and the abstract world of philosophy and theory. A different lens through which to view the world. I founded my own organization SPLACE, and am becoming a community instigator in the art and design arena.

So, in true entrepreneurial sense, I have made a commitment—to my own true nature. On this path, I became a self-taught instigator of contemporary art and design, finding that I am drawn to more eclectic, 'non-linear' processes and to collaboration over competition—similar to those I had growing up and have been adopting for my art and photography. I knew that expanding the language of wearable items, by breaking the rules of my host practices, such as jewelry, mod-ified products elevate my soul, tickle my neurons, and promote a sense of individuality, but I have conjectured that by integrating such elements from my art into wearable designs has a similar affect I can share with a wider audience.

I realized that this was what I wanted to do with my life—share this revelatory understanding with others through the transcendental reach of thought-out, hand-crafted mod-ern goods. SPLACE was born. I began to seek out collaborators, notions, and materials that echoed my sensibilities—elements that reflect spontaneity, optimism, open ambivalence, and connectivity—an eclectic mix not commonly found in the American market.

I like to thnk my sensibilities: Austrian humor, German configuring, Mexican adaptability, French reasoning are all welcomed and needed in my community, so that it can benefit from the alternatives to more generic, mass-produced goods—and have more options to sophisticated and thought-provoking designs.

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strong hands, slow runner`s heart beat, warm futirist`s snappyness, Austrian humor, German configuration, Mexican adaptability, French interpretation, Yogi flexibility, gymnastic affection, casual dexterities in balance, vital convictions in check, prone to mind expansion.