Virtual Exhibition and Publication
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On the Day of the Dead in Mexico, the marigold flower, cempazúchitl, symbolizes and celebrates the souls of the dead returning back home. It’s golden-orange petals are laid on the streets, leading the way to the altars created by loved ones in churches or homes. I remember the beauty of this tradition vividly, and how I first translated it into a painting during high school art class.
In my recent work, the flower has returned to my work – as both meditation and offering. I’m focusing more and more on layering and juxtaposing seemingly unrelated images, as a way of exploring the quiet tension between freedom and confinement, stillness and vibration, isolation and connection, clarity and ambiguity.
By combining architectural and organic forms - and altering the scale between them – I aim to evoke a visual idea of space and time: one that mirrors a state of awareness often experienced in meditation, where time dissolves yet lingers in us as consciousness forever.
One Hum was selected by the distinguished Curator and Founder of Visionary Art Collective, Victoria J. Fry, to be part of a virtual group exhibition Resonance, in collaboration with Warnes
Contemporary Gallery in Brooklyn NY. The work was also selected to be on the cover of the exhibitions catalog and publication.
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