LOBOS DE MAR 2018
Water is my reference and metaphorical medium. I have been painting swimmers for about 14 years. In summer photo-shoots I ask friends and family to swim back and forth in shallow water while I stand above with my camera. I record their bodies moving, merging with the motion of the waves. Lights and shadows create patterns on their skin. Their contours are liquefied.
I work mainly in oils, sometimes acrylics, often repeatedly painting the same swimmer in series. I seek to establish a gestural resemblance, a recognizable body posture: an identity. Just as the swimmer moves through water, we move through life, exchanging and merging with the shifting world around us. Our environment affects us, changes us, defines us, and the experience becomes the very fabric of our identity. Like chameleons, meshing with our surroundings, our life experience is recorded on our skins.
I work mainly in oils, sometimes acrylics, often repeatedly painting the same swimmer in series. I seek to establish a gestural resemblance, a recognizable body posture: an identity. Just as the swimmer moves through water, we move through life, exchanging and merging with the shifting world around us. Our environment affects us, changes us, defines us, and the experience becomes the very fabric of our identity. Like chameleons, meshing with our surroundings, our life experience is recorded on our skins.
Tiny Christmas Swimmers, 2018, oil on board or canvas
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Blond Idol II, 2018 Vivi, 2018 Blond Idol I, 2018
oil on canvas oil on canvas acrylic on canvas
100x50cm 80x40cm 100x50cm
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Lobo de Mar V, 2018, oil on canvas, 70x100cm
Lobo de Mar I, 2018 (Hover) Lobo de Mar II, 2018 (Lion) Lobo de Mar III (Lobito), 2018
oil on canvas oil on canvas, oil and acrylic on canvas,
40x40cm 50x40cm 30x30cm
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