As a first generation queer Mexican American latchkey kid raised on television in a family that demanded assimilation, I have lived consistently searching for cultural connections. My work reflects a life shaped by media instead of folklore, by chosen culture instead of inherited tradition, and by a persistent effort to find where I fit in. I make uncanny ceramic figures that function as emotional avatars: humorous, awkward, and unsettling. They invite the viewer to connect to their own personal archive of nostalgia and memories. Ceramics allows me to negotiate contradictions between fragility and durability, cuteness and melancholy, nostalgia and unease. Clay holds the weight of craft history while remaining deeply physical and imperfect, mirroring the tension between childhood comfort and adult self-awareness. By merging sculptural tradition, and a love of animation and toy aesthetics with queer embodiment; my work explores how identity is assembled through media, desire, loss, and longing.