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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 78.7 W x 51.2 H x 0.9 D in
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"A LUCID DREAM; the one where Picasso was a lion hunting after me." is one of the first paintings I made in 2019. Getting through the darkness into the light. Stretched on a high end museum quality aluminium frame. I usually stay away from commenting too much about the work in such a public display.. but in this case I'd like to throw in a bit of explanation in regards to the title. ********************* warning ******************** *it's a bit of a long story - and quite a dark dream* When I returned from showing at the Other Art Fair in New York and finally fell asleep in my own bed after travelling by plane and train through the Dutch landscape, I fell into a deep lucid dream. It started with the Dutch landscape I had just seen; cows grazing in the fields. As I was standing on the field looking at the cows; suddenly there was a dark brown lion amongst the cows. He was hunting them and it turned darker when he saw me. He came after me and right before he got to me, the lion shapeshifted into Picasso- or to be precise- the 'Boy Leading a Horse' person, out of the painting I had seen in the MOMA. I clearly identified him as Picasso himself.. and he wanted to strangle me. I pleaded with him to let me go, for I was a painter too. (this part I found quite amusing after waking up in horror, writing it down so I wouldn't forget) Being a painter did not matter much and when I was close to losing consciousness by his grip, a bright light entered. It was an angel coming to save me. The angel took my hands and placed it on Picasso's neck. Picasso then shrinked into the shape of a little boy. (this is the part where it turns really dark, and got me shook for quite some time..) I could sense the danger of the Lion Picasso turn smaller and smaller, I still had my hands around the little boys neck and before I knew it- I pressed really hard and felt the little boy collapsing. Then I woke up. What did it mean? Who was Picasso? and who was the little boy? Where they all versions of myself? Did I overcome a deep fear from the past? I'm still not sure. While I was painting this work, also at a place where I was working through some trauma- suddenly I "saw" it. I had painted the landscape and the grey shape on the right, I identified as Picasso in the shape of his "pigeon' paintings. And then there was a sense of release.. I killed the fear and was able to move on to the light.
Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
78.7 W x 51.2 H x 0.9 D in
Not Framed
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Born in 1982 Mar del PLata, Argentina. Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Diana Roig has her work taken into the permanent Museum Collection of The Vincent van Gogh Huis, The Dutch Embassy in Rome and into several private art collections around the world. She continues to show her work internationally and has won the Public's choice Award at the Dutch Royal Palace Award for the best modern painting in 2017 for young painters under the age of 35 in The Netherlands. ‘The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.’ (Carson McCullers, American writer, 1917-1967.) My collective work is a study of the transformative nature within the process of painting. Nurtured and driven by personal experiences, altered states of consciousness and an urge to communicate by the act of painting. Translated into abstraction, color and form. I am influenced by natural growth, biological processes and rhizomatic shapes. I also have a great fascination for evolution, survival of the fittest, new species, transformations and perception. Each painting, in a way, tells its own story and becomes a framework for perceptual faculties that address our associative mind. I strive to blur the lines between abstraction and figuration by subconsciously suggesting forms and primordial organic shapes. I invite the viewer to make his or her own image; an unique experience distilled from their own frames of reference; to create a new world of their own.
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