Hey there! I’m Sandra V. Calzada, though most people know me as Tutú, the nickname my father gave me when I couldn’t quite say “tomato.” It stuck and still feels like home. It’s the name I work under, a reminder of roots, love, and the grace of imperfection.

I’m from Colombia, a place that hums with color and rhythm. I grew up with a creative father and a mother who made magic with her hands, so making things felt as natural as breathing.

Before I picked up a brush, I wrote. Since I was very young, writing helped me name what I felt: poems in the margins, diaries, handmade books, and small poetry collections that still live quietly on a shelf. A couple of years ago, I decided to pursue and finish my book, The Needle Ceiling. The process was long, and I’m grateful I saw it through. Completing it brought me back to the discipline of language and the courage to share. I am here, humbly, offering my work and my words to the world.

After studying finance in the United States and moving to North Carolina, I began to notice life’s cracks, including my own. Painting became a way to piece things together, one deliberate stroke at a time. My geometric abstraction follows the same instinct: separate parts come into relationship until they form a new sense of wholeness.

Alongside my creative work, I also found a deep and surprising connection to programming. It became another language, another structure, another way to build. I’ve come to see code and poetry as distant cousins. Both require precision, both leave space for invention, both can solve or express. Programming challenges me to think logically while giving me tools to craft digital spaces that function, move, and sometimes even speak.

Life shifted again when I moved to the Netherlands and became a mother. Art turned from passion into practice, a daily way to process, reflect, and grow. Along the way, I fell in love with goldsmithing, with its patience, its precision, and the quiet play of metal and light.

My work is personal, yet it is not only my story. Each line, angle, function, or fragment is part of a larger narrative that belongs to anyone who connects with it. I hope you find a piece of your own story in these shapes, symbols, and codes.