The Habitat Series. Other landscapes

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The battle of evermore *TBOEM20250423
Mixed media / Canvas
200 X 140 centimeters (78 X 55 Inches)
2025


Like the world it seeks to depict, the art of the landscape has been utterly transformed through the centuries. Once a genre unacknowledged, it has journeyed to become the essential subject of some of the world's most enduring visions. This series traces that profound metamorphosis—not as a chronicle of style, but as an evolving dialogue between sight and insight, between the terra we inhabit and the terra we inscribe with meaning.




Tropical observatory. *D20240801
Mixed media / Canvas
150 X 150 centimeters (59 X 59 Inches)
2024


The works presented here could be sites or fragments of an imagined society—utopian or rustic, perhaps deserted cities or bustling ones, depending on the viewer's own gaze.




Tropical observatory *TO20250801 
Mixed media / Canvas 
200 X 120 centimeters (79 X 47 Inches) 
2025 (Private Collection)




Signs of life *SOL20251012 
Mixed Media / Canvas 
200 X 140 cm (78 X 55 inches) 
2025


Within this cartography of the fictive, geometric forms coexist with organic, dynamic elements in an atmosphere of dense texture. These are routes where ritual chants echo in memory, guided by the remnants of musical scores inscribed in a secret calligraphy.





Signs Of Life *D20240815 (SOLD)
Mixed media / Canvas
200 X 120 centimeters (78 X 55 Inches)
2024 (Private Collection)

Beneath these vibrant, anonymous surfaces, the viewer becomes both witness and interpreter to the erosion of the landscape. Each striation, accident, or mark represents an immortalized lesson that time itself reconfigures and decomposes, creating new meaning with every passing moment.





The battle of evermore *TBOEM20240126
Mixed media / Canvas
200 X 140 centimeters (78 X 55 Inches)
2024 (Private Collection)

The images act as a vocabulary; the composition, a syntax.




Song of the Stars *TBOEM20250423
Mixed media / Canvas
200 X 140 centimeters (78 X 55 Inches)
2024


“An artist’s mind must be free to truly grasp the universe’s meaning and reflect it in one’s work— the same freedom is required when crafting characters.”
Huang Yuan






Signs of life #TP20251124
Mixed media / Canvas
200 X 120 cm (79 X 47 In)
2025

A painting of my recent project "The Endless River," part of the PECDA "Established Artists Grant of Michoacán" 

I have decided to "converse" with the species: The chehua (Alloophorus robustus).
I am drawn to its colors and its somewhat "rounder" shape compared to the others.
I was thinking of creating a kind of aquatic landscape that evokes a sensation of reproduction or an explosion of life itself.


Thanks to the kind collaboration of Biologist Mtra. Daniel Díaz Rodríguez, head of the Department of Environmental Management for the State of Michoacán (SECMA), I was able to access valuable information on these subjects.





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