GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

“At night, I do not know who I am when I dream, when I am sleeping. Awakened, I hold my breath and listen: a thumbnail scratches the other side of the wall. At midday, I enter a sunlit room to observe the lamplight on for no reason. I should know by now that few octaves can be heard, that a vision dies from being too long stared at; that the whole of recorded history even is but a little gossip in a great silence; that a magnesium flash cannot illumine, for one single moment, the invisible. I do not complain. I start with the visible and am startled by the visible.” Mysteries by Dannie Abse, Poem 1973.   guillermo aranda-mena © 2020

Guillermo.Aranda-Mena@2013

City Concoct 1333 mm x 2012 mm Acrylic on canvas Private Collection Signed lower right:  ARANDA-M  Painterly city patterns in figure-ground pictorial technique. The above piece was inspired by a number of life experiences and art observations I made in recent times across the five continents. I specially wanted to depict a type of mosaic containing a diversity of cities, a type of fingerprint , barcode or chromosome  encoding inherit characteristics on human activity. Life patterns reflecting urban societies, humans subsisting closely together [citizens or urbanites] in this great invention we call 'the city'.   Patterns which are the reflection of daily life over the years, centuries or millennia, patterns crafted and synthesised in acrylic strokes over canvas (1333mm by 2012mm) bird-eye view of a City Concoct. Content: The resulting piece is a morphing metropolis combining city centers and neighborhoods such as those from Brasilia, ...