AMAPOLA MADRE No.5 Painting

Explaining my relationship with the environment that surrounds me has been a way to describe the essence of my expressive work. However, I am not a simple interpreter of reality, as my creative process is equally fueled by the will to form, memory, and subjective emotion. Evidence of this is the selection of pieces from my last three series: "KAleidoscope (2020)", "Mundo Feliz (2022)" and "PÍS MARAVILLA (2024)." I was born in Guadalajara and early on nourished my visual horizon with the material heritage of Mexico and the dizzying industrial culture of the Western world. My training, as my works suggest, oscillated between architecture, set design, and the visual arts. The context of my creation ranges from the familiar to the strange, from my own to the foreign, always drawing on the visual tradition of the many places I have inhabited. Perhaps for this reason, the viewer can find in my paintings and sculptures not only an evident technical mastery, a fruit of my education, but also a latent questioning of the disciplinary definitions of art and design that burst into my work with complete freedom, without detours or academic pretensions. The geometry and color that give form to my work hold the secret of my eternal return, the magic of my connection with mundane reality and "non-ordinary reality." I found in the remembrance of Mexico the impetus for my representation, making memory the ideal filter for the production of my images, rather than the direct contemplation of things. What for minimalists like Frank Stella, Sol Lewit, or Víctor Vasarely meant the abandonment of representation, for me is the natural expression of Mexican culture. What we see is nothing more than the result of my meticulously trained eye, translating the living richness of the cosmogony of the Wixárika, Xotzil, Purepecha, and other indigenous worlds, all within an autonomous visual language. So it is an honor to present the dynamic vision of what some experts call me a "contemporary optical shaman" and I do embrace it with pride.