Anima

Graphite and Acrylic on Paper. Artist's statement: I look into the allure of transitions, and the play of light and shadow. In these works that are part of SpectaculART 2, I offer a series composed of clusters of circular patterns that form like busy bubbles, tentacles, and other details which form these semi abstract, semi figurative doodles which are composite elements of my more colorful and known paintings. Through these artworks, you are invited to feel the enchantment of uncertainties and indeterminate gaps that trigger possibilities amid this climate of confusion and instability. Riddled with shifts from darkness and luminosity, these recurring patterns framed in stark and solid dark backgrounds overlaid with muted colors activate the optical play. Often, these paintings do engage moments of pareidolia if not outright suggestion of figurative information but they can also be fictive and malleable as they allow viewers to pinpoint forms, and create their own meaning apart from my ideas, as if the patterns and details continue to form something which at times can be discernible, and at times just lead to an interesting pictorial guessing game. They also evoke a sense of transit and movement that can prompt a disorientating gaze. Anima is about being alive.