As an indigenous Peruvian American, my work reflects my lineages history of Folk Art and Craft in relation to Ayni, which means sacred reciprocity in Quechua. My Father is a traditional Andean folk musician and my mother studied Fiber Art with the Huichol and Quechua. I was raised in a Renaissance festival and International Cultural fair atmosphere in Kansas, and was exposed to international indigenous craft at a young age. My current research focuses on indigenous cultures and their correlating ethnobotany. The past 10 years my concentration has focused on Natural Dyes, and before that I was studying folk art narrative painting from around the world. My current focus is studying the ethnobotany of the salt marsh biome we reside in within the southeast. The past 5 years I have been creating plant extractions to create pure pigments from plants to develop a balanced palette of plant hues, and creating my own plant paints.