"AMOR ETERNO" - "EVERLASTING LOVE"
"AMOR ETERNO" - "EVERLASTING LOVE"
Acrylic on Canvas
2021 - 2023
Everlasting Love is an abstract series born from pain and created over the course of two years by the artist. As a follow-up to the first series, “Pandemia”, which was created during the pandemic as the artist struggled with the hospitalization of family members; this series begins as a processing of immense grief and physical pain.
The series is representative of the metaphysical ability of immigrants to experience death and grief at a distance. It is a painting of the distortion, uncertainty, and chaos felt by undocumented communities who never get to go home for the death of a parent. It is the regurgitation of pure emotion and raw feelings of despair. It is grieving without closure.
Significantly, the paintings capture the artist processing what would be their last distant moments with their grandmother, a woman who lived their entire life in Mexico and got sick with the virus while visiting the United States.
Everlasting Love is grotesque.
“Pandemia”
Acrylic on Canvas
2020
Pandemia is a series created in the midst of a global pandemic and the presence of death. The exploration of lines and shape are vessels for the expression of uncertainty and an attempt to make sense of heavy emotions and indescribable sadness. At the time of their creation, the artist was dealing with the hospitalizations of two family members, both of whom were severely ill with COVID-19 and desperately fighting for their lives and the chance to return home. “As a child of immigrants, having to interpret to my Spanish-speaking father that their mother’s (my grandmother) kidneys and internal organs are shutting down was a pain unlike no other.”
“Pandemia” is about uncertainty.
