Portals

Portals is a series of eight acrylic/oil paintings and handmade objects that enquire about ideas of time-space and progress, informed by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican thought, western notions of time and science readings.

Western traditional art history narrative constructed a single homogeneous linear development, reinforcing the idea of progress. However, new revisions have deflated this privileged narrative, embracing the existence of many art histories and versions of the modern.

​My source of inspiration was a traditional toy called Jacob's Ladder, made of six wooden blocks tied by ribbons of colour. They unfold by gravity, giving a progressive movement illusion but only flip sides. 

In Portals, objects exist in diverse realms; in some cases, elements transmute when entering a different pictorial or physical space. 

The compression of time, space and art historical references confer a collage quality.