Vera born in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1991. My professional career started in 2010 when I wanted to study psychology and I did until I decided not to do it anymore. I have always had love and appreciation for art and since I was a child I used to draw a lot and was imagining one day to paint something beautiful like the master painters I saw in books. In 2014 after a series of wonderful and disruptive events I decided to abandon psychology to pursue a career in Art. All before that I traveled for a year with my partner at the time and in 2015 we married and started my new life in Kassel. During all this time, despite the chaos of migration, language and integration, in the way I could I managed to create art, since I aimed to enroll in the University of Art in Kassel (Kunsthochschule Kassel). After acquiring the necessary level of language and having built up a portfolio I entered the University as an exchange student in 2018 (to check the environment and become acquainted with the professors and people) and in 2019 and got accepted as a regular student. I am still currently studying at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. 

All before and during that time until now, my life has been a fun and sometimes scary and stressful rollercoaster that has very much influenced the way I express myself artistically. Something very important to me to mention is my on/off relationship to religion and spirituality. Before I migrated I was very much in touch with religion/spirituality from the perspective of the culture I was raised in and my family values (catholicism). I never rejected but I always kept a space for questions that challenged the rigidity and contradictions of the institution. In 2017 I decided to formally step out of the Church amid the abuse allegations. I remained “spiritual-less” for a while and I experienced that something changed profoundly in my artistic expression. Something was missing and wasn’t definitely the religion. A year later in 2018 I started a new kind of exploration, an intellectual one that later turned out to be a spiritual one. I ended up meeting Buddhism, reading about it and later on in 2021 practicing Vipassana Meditation. This gave me something I needed, I was lacking and I didn’t know: connection with the deeper parts of myself, remembering the imagination I learned how to concentrate, relax and experiment, it brought me back the desire to reconnect with joy and use this energy to create. From there on new kinds of images and inspiration arised inside of me and that is the primal source of inspiration in the way I do art. I have to mention this because it is part of who I am now and how I do things. I think art is not just an expression but an extension of the person who creates, a link that comes from within to the outside as a bridge and connects the viewer with the creator.