CALMA

Movement, color and texture are three words that directed me in this painting. I remember before I began this painting, I was running low on energy and inspiration in my artistic work. I made time for myself though one Saturday morning, and spent the day at The Art Institute of Chicago. I stood in front of one of Monet’s Water Lily Pond paintings. The colors blended with one another, creating a dance between strokes, a relationship based on respect of their diversity.

Calma was an extension of my hand, a freeing movement, that blended colors in similar strokes, yet different enough to recognize each color’s unique area.