Painting Series
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Outside influences, societal growing pains, personal relationships, and inner mental struggles shape our lives. These factors are intertwined In a beautifully choreographed ritual called life, and we are the dancers. These artworks reflect these entanglements we are dancing with and the struggles to undo these existential knots.
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Ritual Dancers
Outside influences, societal growing pains, personal relationships, and inner mental struggles shape our lives. These factors are intertwined In a beautifully choreographed ritual called life, and we are the dancers. These artworks reflect these entanglements we are dancing with and the struggles to undo these existential knots.
Initial drawings and sketches
Initial painting studies
Final paintings
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Title Water Birth
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28.25in x 36in
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Title Camouflage in a field of Praying Manti
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28.25in x 36in
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Title Lust for Empathy While the Ground Breaks
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28in x 36in
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Title A black hole at the end of the rainbow
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28.5in x 36in
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Title The Rescue
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28in x 36in
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Title Melted Petals
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 28in x 36in
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Title El Vigilante de Mi Conciencia
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 48.5in x 59in
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Title El Funeral del Cacique
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 48in x 59in
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Title El Bailarin de Tumbas
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 48in x 59in
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Title ush and Pull of Human Legacy
Info Acrylic paint on canvas
Size 64in x 48in
What if my paintings had a physical dimension to them?
Drawings and studies playing with dimensionality
Dimensional works
Title The Maloca
Info Acrylic on wood panel
Size 36in x 80in
A maloca is an ancestral long house used by indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each Maloca carries a lot of spiritual meaning, every surface of the house has a meaning that relates back to origin stories about each tribe and the people that live within the house. This installation its my Maloca, my internal housing where I try to reconnect with a part of my ancestors.
This work is sometimes colorful and other times monochromatic and moody, dense, and shape-shifting. There is a balance and tension in the compositions between abstraction and figuration. The tension between the corporal and the abstract makes the pieces feel unbounded and active, endlessly breaking from their intended form and transforming into something new. The by-product of this transformation is a rhythm and linearity across the canvas that engages with the viewer's gaze and becomes a guiding hand.
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