My inspiration comes from the spontaneity of the reticulation of oil and water mixtures. Although these properties seem logical and common sense, the process and result offer exciting patterns and effects as they take unanticipated paths that I try to visualize and record by using black and white mediums. I usually do not plan things, I let it happen and respond to the effects – it is the search rather than the research – the activity rather than the supported hypothesis. Despite all this, similes and metaphors seem very apparent when consider the aesthetic qualities of opposites. The beauty comes from the combination of opposites: black and white, oil and water, organic and geometric, big and small. Picasso said, “I do not seek, I find” and that is why I love to create; art imitates the force that pushes my creativity to its limits and uncovers what has lost within myself. I believe that life in all of its aspects gives us the choice to shape our consequences and that allows us to create. My paintings hope to stimulate the viewer’s mind and emotions to push themselves to find answers to questions they hide within themselves.

Painting is a way to work with different mediums to create artworks that are rich with various textures and colors. Although I have explored this process with color in several painting previously, in this series, I have reduced my palette to explore the subtlies of texture and value and abandoned the distraction of color. When I start doing abstract paint, I use paintings as a form of meditation where I can find peace and equilibrium by reacting to and exploiting various effects that demonstrate movement and depict mood. At times, this may reference the action of material application, while other times the painted effects are a result the interaction of the materials themselves. The reticulation of various properties of paint offers a tension that seem symbolic of so many things. The effects are created by the introduction of oil-based materials into a water-based region of the canvas to create a visual hydro-tension. The result is the materials dry at various lengths of time and arbitrary patterns are the result. At times, these are reinforced with charcoal and pencil to add accents to the effects, while often I rely painting patterns over patterns to build up the surface. Layers become an additional quality to multiples to the element of chance and further develops the depth. The lines that I draw and effects of the reticulation of oil and water lead me, by the passion of creativity, to new beginnings that help visualize new paths that stray away from previous ones.