Mystery Guitar Man

Start of, end up, the guitar man is on his way, yet to come.
(named after Mystery Guitar Man)

Nothing better to do...

My art teacher made me realize that human body was my strength and that I needed to pursue that more in my concentration pieces, so I decided I will do a people and their world. This one shows a girl, very juvenile, and congenial, having fun outside a club. I decided I will do the back ground monochromatic, because since its Carmen’s (the girl) world it needed something particular of her, and in the picture here accessories are red. We spent a lot of time taking a lot of pictures, and walking around the neighborhood looking for interesting perspectives. I had change my concentration twice, but now I very comfortable with this one.

Before And After

The first art piece is a house, in a horrible condition, with long grass and no color, wood in bad state and empty. In the first art piece I used a first layer of pencil, when I started the second layer I used no ruler, to stem the idea of a house in a bad state, painted the inside black, to portray emptiness. The first state of these art pieces was pointed to strictly skill, to show the house in a horrible state. The second one was to remodel, to give life to something that did not have it. The second art piece shows a house much more modern, straight columns color, pavement walls, windows, balconies, etc. Since it was a much more modern house, I gave color to the background and to the house, changed the roof tops and the windows. It was a fun project.

A House In Geometry

Since I’m applying for architecture, I wanted to explore the idea of basic geometric figures, in a house, thus you can see, the cubes, the parallelograms, the cylinder, triangles, etc. In this art piece, I tried to exemplify a very modern house with a lot of glass. The concept of this house is the negative spaces between floors, which have to utilities: for lightning, and also to create this sense of isolation between rooms, and still have the concept of a single house. The metals supporting the second floors have to be of the same color as the windows, for it to have unity. This was the first house I created, and although it was not so successful in paper, I love the concept of it.

It's just a cigarrete...

A cigarette, a small a detrimental object. I wanted to stem the beauty of a it and the beauty of the smoke, how something so small and considered ugly can have a beautiful and have an artistic moment. I was smoking a cigarette and it shocked me how something can diffuse into the air until it disappears, but you can still sense it. To pursue this beauty in an artistic manner I used the color, complementary. The smoke drifting away from the cigarette forms a moon, exemplifying the fact that smoke disappears into the night, into a something beyond recognition, but you know its still there because you can smell it, you can sense it.

Singing In The Rain

This is a self portrait, I wanted to represent the times when I was a singer in Argentina. To stem the sentiment of passion to the music, I portrayed the rain, because I think that people often stand under a rainy sky when they are euphoric, or very passionate about something. The art and the music are the things that make me stay in the rain. The detailed square in the upper right side is there because while singing I usually close my eyes, so I wanted to portray the darkness and the diversion of reality that the closing of the eyes mean to me.

Words Cannot Express...

This is a portrait in calligraphy. In this piece I was trying to portray a profound shocking expression. Normally this expressions leave people world less at that instant, so I portrayed this picture in words, like: shock, atonement, astound, OMG, ‘you!’, etc. I chose a background color red, because of its impact, to give the sensation of shock to the art piece, also to stem this purpose I added perspective to the background words.

A Decade Under The Influence

This is a drawing of my band, when I was in Argentina; I was 16 years old. This art piece is very personal. It’s called a ‘Decade Under the Influence’, because through out all these year’s music has influenced my life, in the arts, in my way of thinking, everything up to my personality. Given the image of what music is in my life, the art piece is just us, because when we performed at a concert nothing else existed, just us, the instruments and the sound. The orange is the lighting that influenced all of us. The words are the song the made us one. In this art piece I wanted to represent the idea of movement of each of us, how the music grew in our body and manifested in physical expression. I love this piece because it represents my influence.

You are red... Violent red...

This art piece tells the story about violence; it’s a self-portrait of me smoking a cigarette. I wanted to portray the violence that there could be in this world, the reflection of me in the mirror, is red, a shocking color. I figured that it’s the story of a murderer that after killing a victim he looks at the mirror, and sees the violence imprinted his face, the mirror is cracked to represent this idea of turbulent scene.

My Looney Reality

This image is one of my friends, I call it ‘looney reality’ because, she is escaping the cruel truth that lies beneath her mind, which is all destroyed and in a deplorable state. Everyone has a way of escaping a cruel reality, so she is thinking of a simple world where she can escape, that is why the girl is representing in a minimalistic way. This is one of my concentration pieces conveying the mix of human body, and architectural background.

The Music's of Myself

I always loved perspective, and I always loved music. I wanted to convey these two passions into one. With radial balance I created this image of me, with CD’s flying out of my head, because for me the passion of my art comes from the music in my head. So there are these colorful CD covers that convey the sense of art, while still representing the sense of music. I tried to perform an unusual kind of perspective, so that the CD’s would appear as if they are growing out of my mind. If looked closely, my eye is spiraling, to portray these sense of craziness in the art.