Biography
Creative director, artist, poet and entrepreneur on businesses. She has developed with creativity into alternative spaces and culinary arts.
She was born in Puerto Rico, Mariela has a master’s degree from Naropa University in the United States, which emphasized contemplative arts and somatic creation. She also has a degree from the University of Puerto Rico in Comparative Literature. She was part of several groups on contemplative movement in Colorado (United States) in which its focused on the body consciousness, and environment relation.
In last years, she co-founded and managed a small cafe-theater in Puerto Rico, which now is a space for poetry, and music with meal and social networking. Mariela creative work has been experiencing an observation towards the natural world, together with human psychosomatic contemplation, being as part of an interconnected and collective universe. She currently is in Madrid, and is part of the Neuro-art-lab Art and Neuroscience laboratory team.