FINE ARTS
Paintings
My two dimensional world, where expression and emotions take shape, color and texture conveying sensations of movement, space and light.
Sacred Heart
of the City
of the City
2022
Acrylic, gel and gold paper on canvas
"Sacred Heart of the City'' is the second piece of an unfortunate continuing series to bring awareness to the flood of gun violence that has plagued New York City in recent years. Guns have claimed the life of many New Yorkers.
The golden halo on the heart is a representation of the sacred engine of the city, what keeps it alive: its people, transportation, trade, tourism, freedom and safety. The city that never sleeps, now fragile and tired from a lack of oxygen as a result of a gun violence buildup. Illegal guns have become a plaque obstructing the inner walls of the arteries making it harder for New Yorkers to breathe the air of peace.
The City is in urgent need of an atherectomy procedure to remove all the illegal guns off our streets and put an end to the senseless killing.
Size: 32 in X 38 in
Ghost Writer
2022
Acrylic, gel and gold paper on canvas
"Ghost Writer" is the latest installment from the "Sacred Heart of the City" series to raise awareness about the gun violence that has plagued our streets.
"Ghost Writer" represents the unknown creator of ghost guns that have taken over the city. One of these illegal firearms cut short the life composition of honor student Angellyh Yambo. The 16-years-old was shot in the back by a stray bullet on April 8th, 2022, while she walked home from University Prep Charter High School.
The notebook resting on a collapsed and motionless hand represents the lives lost to this kind of illegal gun, the notebook patterns of hidden guns, are the street corners, allies and backpacks where these 'Ghosts' hide. The halo is for the angels we continue to lose to gun violence.
24 in X 24 in
Three-dimensional
There are only few seconds to turn a bystander in to a reader, whether you are a newspaper sitting at a newsstands or a social post in the infinite internet scroll, a clever headline and a strong visual are the ingredients to achieve a successful front page.
This is U.S.
On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Stripin Nevada. From his 32nd-floor suites, he fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding 411.
The empty bullet shells trace the map of the United states. The bloody high caliber represents where there was mass shooting. The empty shotgun shell represent Congressional baseball shooting in Washington D.C.
The red presidential phone off the hook with the numbers 58 which represented the known confirmed victims at the time the artwork was finished.
Jirafantisima
If the world was run by giraffes
2020
Acrylic on wood
On Genesis 1:27, wherein "God created man in his own image ..." this scriptural passage does not mean that God is in human form, but rather, that humans are in the image of God in their moral, spiritual and intellectual nature.