Artist Statement: 

   I started my art life working in a variety of sculpture medium: casting metals, clay, plaster, welding, etc. About 5 years ago my ideas began evolving in a direction that needed a stationary physical plane. I also wanted to do a personal exploration of color, in a contemporary approach. Painting fit the niche.

   The results confirm that my artwork has always been about the human body and the human mind. I am inspired by microscopic worlds, energetic fields, and the mysteries of the human brain. I am intrigued by how concepts become ideas, and how those morph into matter/ physical reality on the quantum level. My thoughts exist inside of me, and outside of me. 

  What are the physiological parameters of intelligence?

  Can the DNA in our cells be intelligent?

  Can ideas be an energy that we can visualize and actually see?

I invite the viewer to indulge in speculating on the questions, suggested here.

In this body of work, I imagine thoughts as creative energy forms consorting with atoms, neurons, and single cellular beings.   This interplay can exist within a cerebral gridlike landscape, or against a limitless void.

 

 

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Artist Display Name: 
Barbara Florez