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Happy New Year! I hope you're doing well and are ready to begin anew. I wanted to share a mini-series I made at the end of 2023 (images below). Exhibiting my botanicals last fall got me thinking again about our complicated relationship with nature (and ourselves). While most of my botanicals are an explosion of color, in these new works I depict botanicals minimally⏤they are botanicals in essence only. Here, the botanicals are blackened and remind me that everything has a dark side⏤even bright colorful flowers. This darkness and mystery is part of what makes the beauty within all of us. In the Jungian sense of Shadow Integration, our shadow is the unconscious and denied part of ourselves. Working to understand our shadows can help us integrate all parts of ourselves and bring them to light. Also, I’m honored to share that I’ve been selected as an Aesthetica Art Prize 2024 Longlisted Artist based on my overall practice and my Corazones Cosidos project. Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine (based in the UK), the Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates excellence in art worldwide. It offers both emerging and established artists the opportunity to showcase their work to a wider audience and further their engagement with the international art world.  Comments are closed.
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