DESTROY EVERYTHING

Neo Bootleg

Growing up in Mexico, there were no official toys, no licensed shelves, no clean packaging. There were bootlegs: off-model, unlicensed, strange, and entirely real. For a lot of kids that was a limitation. For him it was a formation. The bootleg wasn't a knockoff of something better, it was the thing. Imperfect, mutant, and alive in a way the original never was.

That history doesn't sit in the background of his work. It is the work. What he calls Neo Bootleg is the elevation of that tradition, taking the spirit of the bootleg, the kitbash, the remix, and pushing it into the territory of serious sculpture. Years of customizing, breaking apart visual languages he was raised on, learning what works and what doesn't, and rebuilding it all into something that never existed before. Not homage. Not imitation. Mutation with intent.

At its core, He is a bootlegger and  Neo Bootleg is the genre he built.