Exploring how people communicate, interpret and create meaning through language, art, culture and everyday life.
Latest Essays
- Can a Reproduction Move Us? Rethinking How We Encounter Historical Art TodayA reflection on the Sistine Chapel, cultural mediation, and how contemporary audiences reconnect with symbolic worlds. We Do Not Need Simpler Art. We Need New Paths into Meaning In March, I visited the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. As happens in many of the world’s great museums—the Louvre, the Prado, the MET, or the Uffizi—myContinue reading “Can a Reproduction Move Us? Rethinking How We Encounter Historical Art Today”
- Opus One: When Interpretation Turns Wine into a Cultural ExperienceThis week I visited Opus One in Oakville, Napa Valley for the first time. Visiting this winery allows you to experience an idea physically. Once you leave St. Helena Highway and enter the property, something remarkable happens: without realizing it, you are stepping into the heart of a wine glass. The architecture of the estateContinue reading “Opus One: When Interpretation Turns Wine into a Cultural Experience”
Areas of Work
My work explores how people navigate systems of meaning through language, art, culture, identity and communication. I am focus on four fields:
1️⃣ Language & Cultural Learning
Spanish language and intercultural communication.
2️⃣ Interpretation & Translation
Consecutive interpretation, multilingual communication and translation support.
3️⃣ Cultural Interpretation
Art, museums, visual culture and meaning-making.
4️⃣ Identity & Personal Presence
Exploring the relationship between clothing, image, identity and self-expression as systems of meaning.
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