By Cansu Waldron

María Sánchez is an interdisciplinary artist based in Jupiter, Florida. Her work moves fluidly between traditional and digital painting, drawing, experimental poetry, and movement-based deconstruction. Drawing from psychoanalysis, quantum phenomena, mysticism, and technology, she blends paper, metal, and ink with digital techniques to create hybrid forms that sit between the organic and the synthetic. Her practice often reflects on the ways power structures shape perception, memory, and the unconscious, using both handcrafted and algorithm-inspired approaches to explore the blurred boundary between self and system.

María has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions including Reborn (2021, The HArt Gallery, London) and Faceless (2019, ResiART – SalonK, Berlin). Her recent group exhibitions include Everything But the Kitschen Sink (2025, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles), The Future of the Arts – Miami Art Week (2024, The Sagamore Hotel, Miami), and Colors (2024, CICA Museum, South Korea). She has also collaborated with the WildAid Foundation, creating original artwork for their global campaign against elephant ivory trafficking.

We asked María about her art, creative process, and inspirations.

*The Embrace, Maria Sanchez, All rights reserved, 2025*

Your work draws from such a rich mix — psychoanalysis, quantum phenomena, mysticism, and technology. How do these worlds come together in your creative process?

Just as in life, where every element is interconnected, in my work, one theme cannot exist without the other. For example, in my latest series, Whichezkyak, all of these worlds are in constant dialogue with each other in every chapter. I employ a handcrafted approach to emulate the aesthetic principles of algorithms and the anatomical structure of the digital psyche. In those realms, the line between self and system becomes indistinct. In this sense, technology, specifically AI, serves as a mirror for our unconscious, inviting us to confront not only our current selves but also the potential outcomes of our actions and decisions.

I confront how structures of power infiltrate the psychological spheres. Every interaction, every trace of data, becomes part of an invisible architecture that shapes behavior, desire, belief, and memory. The unseen gaze of power transforms how humans perform, conceal, and even perceive themselves. In this exploration, I examine the fear of disconnection and the possibility of togetherness, the fragility of our own existence, endless potential, and limitations. Beneath the distortion, beyond form, lies a higher self that remembers.

*The Watcher Within, Maria Sanchez, All rights reserved, 2025*

How do organic materials and digital elements interact in your practice, and what draws you to creating hybrid forms that seem suspended between the organic and the artificial, the self and its dissolution?

I use organic materials to approach the matter of which we are composed and can see. Digital elements refer to a world beyond the scope of our five senses. A reality that behaves differently depending on the perceiver. I also consider it to be the infinite inner world within every human being.

*Landed on Different Soil, Maria Sanchez, All Rights Reserved 2025*

From the outside, the synthetic and the organic may seem different, but they both come from the same source, just like every sentient being is perpetually influenced by external factors. Some of the contorted entities of my work embody this condition: hybrid forms stretched between organic matter and artificial systems, suspended between selfhood and dissolution.

*Transmutation, Maria Sanchez, All rights reserved, 2025*

You’ve shown work across Europe, Asia, and the US. Has working in such different cultural contexts influenced your visual or conceptual approach?

Without a doubt, many places and people have had a strong influence on me. Each experience has shaped how I approach my art and emphasized why I do it. Many people have indirectly contributed to the expansion of the language that I am still developing. There are countless sources of inspiration, from cinema to literature. I’d say that the most notable have been the works of Gurdjieff, Jung, Blavatsky, and Krishnamurti, who continue to guide me in my exploration through the visual arts.

*Where Other Suns Shine, Maria Sanchez, All Rights Reserved, 2025*

Collaboration seems to play a role in your practice, from exhibitions to your work with the WildAid Foundation. What was that experience like — translating activism into art?

I believe that every person has a responsibility to contribute their abilities to the benefit of others. At that time, I was the co-founder of an artistic activation called CIGLART. We had the opportunity to collaborate with the foundation by creating original artworks that reflected the main message, the mistreatment and trafficking of ivory from elephants around the world.

In the upcoming years, I plan to continue collaborating with various partners to advance causes that are important to me and raise awareness about them through art.

*The Bodies They Have Stolen, Maria Sanchez, All rights reserved, 2025*

*DNA, Maria Sanchez, All rights reserved, 2025*

As someone exploring technology alongside mysticism, how do you personally reconcile those two seemingly opposite realms?

I think that certain practices around mysticism serve the same purpose as technology, which is designed to help and simplify our lives. One example is meditation, which trains our minds to think clearly and remove self- and societal concepts, ultimately allowing us to be in a state of pure awareness and presence. The way we use these practices will greatly affect our quality of life, for better or for worse.

In the realms I create, most beings are technology itself. They have reached a level where they can assist with certain tasks and move seamlessly through spaces (mental or physical) because they have integrated the duality that is a defining characteristic of humans.

*Ninmah, Original Art by Maria Sanchez, All Rights Reserved*

Finally, what ideas or questions are you currently exploring in the studio — what’s been keeping you curious lately?

I’m currently working on a new series that will be released at the beginning of next year. I have been immersing myself in poetry and literature, and I have been revisiting the works of old masters such as Sorolla and Rembrandt, who are a main source of inspiration for this upcoming work. I’m exploring science throughout history and the endless human capacity to excel in areas of passion. I'm fascinated by how that intensity without greed can propel us to amazing, more harmonious places.