| Event Horizon or Horizonte de Acontecimiento since it needs to be in Spanish has been in my personal collection for less than a year and I like it. I usually don’t like my pieces very much but this is the one exception. Heavy on the religious iconography and symbolism. Critique after the break. |
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Charcoal/Mixed media
Medium: Plywood w/plaster
Location: Personal Collection
Style: Contemporary Art
Stylistic Characteristics
Subject Matter; Death/Santisima Muerte, turtle, stylized stag beetle/jet, opening to a mine. Transit of Venus
Emphasis: The turtle is the main central character and is highlighted and also has a greater variation of the white to dark contrast.
Rhythm: The visual elements create an infinite cycle of impending oblivion and creation in an unending universe.
Movement: Because of the representation of the cycle each figure appears to flow into the other. The depiction of the transit of Venus works as our time piece and reminds us of the cycle
Proportion: The entrance to the dark mine is the largest figure and able to encompass everything. The turtle is larger than the beetle and death
Patters are created on the mine wall and on the turtle shell as well as during the application of plaster.
Images taken from various religions to suggest time is cyclical.
The turtles natural methods of motion are ineffective its eyes are stilled by the massiveness of eternity. The stag beetle is stylized as a jet and is flying in as a savior, the weapons suggest a trinity. Death tries to lure and caress the turtle into the dark mine. The repeating nature of the Transit of Venus sets a repeating timeline and is used to imply the cycle.