Reopening the Gallery for Season 2

There’s a certain stillness that comes with the creative season when its hot beyond belief and the Pueblito is empty.

The gallery quiets down, the rhythm softens, and suddenly there’s space to explore. To paint without urgency. To follow an idea a little further than usual. To make something that maybe doesn’t have a place yet, but feels important anyway.

And then, almost without warning, it shifts. October rolls in and the tourists return.

The doors open again. The town fills. The conversations light up. And just like that, we’re back in the high season.

I always forget how alive it feels especially when coming from the slowest of slows in September.

There’s something incredibly energizing about seeing people walk into the gallery again—new faces, familiar ones, collectors who have followed along from afar, and those who stumble in without expecting anything and leave connected to a piece. It’s a different kind of creative exchange. Less solitary, more immediate. You feel the work land in real time.

This year feels especially exciting because the work is different.

The quiet months weren’t just about producing more, they were about pushing my creative spirit. Letting go of control in certain areas, leaning into new subjects, new compositions, even new ways of thinking about what my work can be. Some pieces feel more raw, others more expansive. There are directions I’m stepping into that I haven’t fully explored before.

And that’s where the nerves come in.

Because sharing new work, especially work that represents growth, is vulnerable in a different way. It’s not just about whether people like it. It’s about standing behind something that feels like a step forward, even if it’s not fully understood yet.

Expansion always carries a bit of uncertainty.

But it’s also the only way the work stays alive.

The gallery, in many ways, becomes the meeting point between those two worlds—the quiet experimentation and the public experience. It’s where ideas leave the studio and begin to have a life of their own.

So stepping back into this season feels like opening the door not just to the gallery, but to everything that’s been building behind the scenes.

It’s exciting. It’s a little nerve-wracking. It’s full.

And more than anything, it feels good to be here again—sharing the work, seeing what resonates, and continuing to grow through it all.