the portal

THe Portal 2021 C-print 53 x 38 in. Previous

this is not a romantic painting

This is not a romantic painting 2022 water color First – Caspar David Friedrich, The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1809-1810, oil on canvas, 43 x 67 in. (110 x 170 cm), credit: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Second – This is not a romantic painting (a reference to Hiroshima, 1945), watercolor, 14 x 17 in. (36 x […]

50% off, Car Wash and Your Sins Too

50% off, Car Wash and Your Sins Too 2024 Acrylic on canvas 7.5 x 9.5 ft​ This painting brings together the absurdity of our humanity, where the act of sin can somehow be washed away by ritual. I found a Gothic font that echoes the serpent/dragon on the church roof, tying the elements together. Inspired […]

Apophenia

APOPHENIA 2024 Acrylic on canvas 67 x 77 in Apophenia is not the name of a flower. What I found interesting is that Apophenia identifies a human tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things; things that are not really there, giving rise to conspiracy theories. So, I found it intriguing to paint what I […]

Documentary screening

Documentary screening, Always On My Mind 2024 Online meeting with María Cristina Carbonell (Director / Producer) at the University Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Caracas, Venezuela

feathers color

From 1990 to 1997 I spend several months in Amazonia, in the Venezuelan rainforest, taking videos, photographs and learning from the natives (Yanomami and Yekuana) and their believes. In my last trip to the rainforest, before going back to the city, at the footsteps of the small plane, Kösirewe, a very important Shaman in the region, […]