THE COLLECTION
Explore artworks. Inspired in internal reflections, dreams, past, future, and universal connection.
The accumulation of past traumas, between the flexible and adaptable, to maintain a self-unmodified awareness in a societal noise that clogs the connection between the real internal self (the Alien) and the external world. Smiling as a woman victim-survivor, using the male structure to tailor and be accepted in the hard paternalism world.
Dust (The white squares): They are the hurts left over from survival—the traumas, the illnesses, and the adaptations. They are what remains when the “system” grinds you down and obligate to erase the past to accept the now.
Entropy (The Chaos and the Imperfect Lines): This is the force of the disorderly world, where everybody is fighting to get a space. It represents the illness, disorders, authoritarian mass control, and the randomness of life on Earth that attacks the body and mind, trying to pull the “Alien” apart.
Interference (The Struggle): This is the conflict. It is the static noise that happens when your internal “Alien” tries to do its best job, but the “Entropy” and “Dust” block the signal, causing anxiety, overthinking, and isolation.
Echoes (The Repetition): It implies that the pain is not new. The repetition of random dots are signals from the past, it is in the present, and it will be in the future. The “Dust” is dancing with old memories, vulnerable to triggers at any time: music, graphics, thoughts, movements, tones of voice. The fighting starts when it is possible to know what is activating the pain; it is probable to accept and adapt the structure again to save the alien.
I was going through a tormented moment with my psychology class. But at the same time, my partner was supportive and very proud of me. I took my acrylic marker and broke the canvas with black dots to reduce my stress. I drew river lines to express to myself that it’s just a semester and will finish, and after that, I knew I would be more open and navigate as a snake in the river and connected with the community as a radio antenna.
The night, planets, and stars. Day, volcano, rainbow, and birds. Everything is connected and transmitted in multiple languages, including sounds, vibrations, and silences, in the sky and the oceans, until the hot center of the planet. Life and death to give another life.
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