Growing up in Hawaii, surrounded by magnificent beaches and tropical forests, Aurora learned from a young age to have a profound respect for nature. When she moved to Brooklyn, where she lived and worked for more than two decades, she began studying art history and visual arts at Columbia. Making herself a part of one of the world’s greatest cultural hubs, New York, she noticed the piles of trash on the streets in front of her studio reflected the forms of the artworks she was creating. This inspired her to combine her creativity with the plastic debris.