Damaris Ruiz is a self taught fine artist living and working in Denver, Colorado.
Her practice relates to beauty as a container for approaching morality, and aesthetics as a wider indication of truth. She thinks of art as the practice of becoming honest, and the role of an artist to seek the embodiment of this discipline.
Resting on the tension between sincerity and hope, she frames liminality as a complete destination, arriving there through meditations on the body, reverence, and thresholds of time.
photography by Michael Ash Smith (2024)