The art for me came in a totally organic way, maybe a little simple. It was not until I met one of my teachers (one of those old and magical souls), that I discovered the mysticism that can exist behind the layers of paint. Someone once told me that my work was always on the "hairy legs of Uncle Sarcasm", but it is not always to laugh, sometimes, melancholy invades us and we will try as artists to fill it with flowers. I want to create emotional mythologies, to make the observer think, to observe, not to go beyond photography immediately, to search, in the occult, to establish a close and carefree dialogue, not for that reason devoid of meaning, I want to create images from the collective imagination, of stories, of people's legends -and today also- of stories and news burned and badly written on social networks.
I look for sanctuaries in the chaos of my own images where hundreds of characters –all very rare-, take turns to be able to appear in the next painting ", we will have to wait to see" whose turn it is next ".
“...sometimes, melancholy invades us and we will try as artists to fill it with flowers.”
The piece portrays the Creative Figure, who carefully and maternally feeds new ideas, in a metaphor that is crowned with the face of a god, of God, of any god who, in the eclectic landscape and chaos, will guide the hand and give birth to new artists. Figures in the sky soar. They are the mature ideas that come to light before being devoured by the frivolity of the material world that flies to reach them.
These desert flowers are for me a representation of being an artist today. About what we are living, the uncertainty, the uneasiness. And yet, against everything, We still stand about to take flight.
“I always go through a somewhat slow visual construction process.” Tania explains, “But painting is fast. It's hard to conceptualize some elements, but once they've been grounded, creating something out of nothing is somewhat easy. Producing this piece, physically, has taken me a short time, but the paintings rarely remain as I imagined them 100%, they always end, ‘telling their own hidden story.’”
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