5- Paintings

This is an experimental acrylic painting and it it my biggest one yet. I wanted to represent frustration and anger.

Throughout the years I have struggled with body image and beauty standards. I made this painting in one of the hardest times of my life. I wanted to represent how due to this mental illness people see their bodies literally morph. So I exaggerated the proportions making the body inflate irregularly. Also the wish to just shrink your body more and more is transposed through the very unrealistic and tight grip of the hands with sick-looking colors.

The proscenium is the imaginary wall actors imagine to be between the stage and the viewers, thus remaining in their role and ignoring everything else. Same concept applies in the saying "breaking the fourth wall". The woman in the painting is looking beyond the proscenium, beyond the painting, right through the watcher's eyes. She is so lost into the watcher's eyes that she is unaware of her surroundings, thus burning her hair with a candle.

This miniature painting is a visual representation of the way people are being minimized in order to be easier to be politically manipulated. The shark/person is placed into a small, unfavorable for growth, environment such as a the glass, forcing it to "fit in". Also, it is placed into lemonade, something acidic, toxic and unhealthy for it.

Yet another oil painting, this one shows Mother Nature crying for help. Having the skull as a symbol of death and a symbol of the huge impact pollution has had on our Earth, that we are not taking care of enough.

I wanted to showcase the saying "the eye is the window to the soul" through a highly detailed eye study. This is also an oil painting.

In the media we usually see only one body type: skinny with a flat stomach. This is a normal representation of a more realistic body type with a puffy tummy and smaller breasts.

This acrylic painting resembles the literal "pressure" people feel due to the unhealthy body standards of today. It is meant to ring a bell and to make people realize how bad this behavior is not only for our bodies health but mostly to our mental health as well.

This is meant to serve as a taro card. The viewer should interpret it in relation to their past experience. Whether it is a f*** you to someone or something, I wanted it to speak for the people.