Collection: Home Is Where The Heart Is

Yo - my name is Rudy Chinchilla. My friends call me Rudy.

I consider myself a liberally imaginative verbal historian. Some of my earliest memories, since like 6 or 7, are of me drawing and writing. A lean quarter century later, I’m still on that. 

Everything I create records a moment in time and my feelings of that moment. Because of this, each collection is radically different from the last. Ever-developing, some of these feelings include nostalgia, pride, anguish, optimism, and longing. Motivating themes include family, culture, community, and journey. 

My most recent break into a new direction, the “Home is where the heart is” collection speaks for itself.  Originally intended as wearable memorabilia for my over-sized Chicano family’s 2024 reunion, this is a nod to everything I love about classic fantasy literature, my own "there and back again" journey over the past decade, and the importance of family in my long overdue homecoming. It’s also the perfect vibrance for my first summer in Detroit and Michigan after many years across the country and around the world.