Hi, my name is Coco. I am a first-generation immigrant, a mother, and a multidisciplinary artist whose work lives at the intersection of memory, embodiment, and liberation.

 

I am AveMagnolia is not a brand or an offering: it is a body. A moving archive. A site of creative reconstruction. It is the space where my art, ancestral logic, and political lineage coalesce into form. Through image, language, ritual, and aesthetic architecture, I trace how power moves through the body -and how the body remembers what systems try to erase.

 

My creative practice emerges from years of work in community education, trauma healing, and systems advocacy. It is shaped by Popular Education (Freire), intersectional justice (Crenshaw), and a lived commitment to creative resistance, somatic presence, and structural clarity. I understand trauma not as a private wound but as the translation of collective rupture into intimate form -the macrocosm of systemic violence metabolized into the microcosm of personal disconnection, fragmentation, or silence.

 

I do not make art to soothe. I make art to trace what was severed.

AveMagnolia is how I stay intact: It is how I bring the map back.