Saturday

Reverie: of fictional landscapes [phase 1]


REVERIE:

a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts
I create my artwork through a passionate application of color and emotion. 
As I fabricate a face, the impression is drawn from a memory of a particular place, 
La Laguna de Alegria, El Salvador. 
This place, from which I used to visit as a child, is a lagoon / a volcano. 
Its azure abyss sways songs of joy as it swallows foolish souls who dare swim its mysterious waters. When I think about the significance of this place, I daydream the textures, smells and sounds. 
The colors and lines I use to build up these impressions mirror 
the likeness of the sleeping volcano I once grew up with. 
The style that emerges is deep, personal and figurative, 
drawing upon a constellation of memory and the human experience.