Deep

Artwork Info

• Year: 2012
• Medium: Painting over photograph.
• Style: Emotional Dark Surrealism
• Size:  55×35 inches (140×88 cms).

“Deep” is a digital painting created over a photographic composition, technique commonly known as “overpainting”. I chose this medium to bring some raw and dirty visuals to the final image.

Artist’s statement

deep /di:pi/ adjective

1. extending far down from the top or surface.
2. very intense or extreme.

This is stress, anxiety and passion coming from within, when you can’t hold what you’re feeling any longer. The businessman offers a stark contrast to anything related to emotions, allowing to show that the emotional turmoil can we found in each human beign, beyond materialism and modern life constructs surrounding the idea of money and possesions.

The rose, representing beauty or love, set the character on fire. After the burst, a burnt out fish comes flying off the cloud of fire. There’s a popular saying in Spanish: “like a fish out of the water”. This popular sentence means feeling very uncomfortable about something.

“Deep” and its emotional dark surrealism offers one of the most high-contrast images of my collection, facing intense oranges against deep, dark and cold emerald tones in the background. It’s striking, powerful and aggressive, but at the same time it brings a strong form of visual poetry and offers some empathy to the viewers when they’re burn out.