My inspiration can come from literature, a trip, music —everything enriches my perspective, and what floats in my subconscious returns to the paintings transformed into image. Like in Puente en Rishikesh, where a figure with a turban emerges from a memory of that trip to India, or in Chavela, whom I imagine exhaling tobacco smoke in the form of yellow circles (she slips through the brush while her raspy voice plays in my studio).