NFT. Digital painting. 1 edition.
Alejandra Her
Foundation
2021
"Don't worry, there are things you won't be able to control: not the future, not anxiety, not time, not even memories. Sometimes you'll start to melt before you understand what comes out of that rabbit hole that is within you.
Time will go too slow or too fast, or it will stop and then take a sudden leap. Ideas will slip through your fingers, but you will see them shine, and hopefully you can remember one that then illuminates everything, with its light transformed.
Your memories will be rewritten over and over again. But here is the important thing: there will be no one who can recognise them. Thus, they will change their faces until they die, and you will not have hands with which to grasp them.
Only pleasure will give you something to hold on to."
This piece is about time, and how our perception of it changes.
Memories are presented as something capable of aging and dying. Nothing lasts forever. Time affects everything.
The main character has no limbs, this represents the inability to control everything. She can't shape her reality or control where to go. She doesn't even have eyes.
Those two guys are anxiety in different stages, and the sketch pad is an attempt to save memories.
This work has a symmetrical composition: many parts on the right side coincide with the left side. They are divergent, convergent and parallel times and memories. We can remember the future if we remember with the imagination.
Pleasure is the only way to hold onto memories. It is cyclical, like time in this piece. Pleasure is mutation and transformation: the quiet mountain vs the volcano; the prickly tongue vs the soft tongues. The orchid and its hands mean that pleasure can be born of itself.
And finally, the sensations we have that can mean different things: we may never finish understanding what is inside us, but we will never feel confused about love: hence those yellow butterflies, a direct reference to Mauricio Babilonia and Meme in "100 Years of Solitude"
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Illustrations and review By ©Alejandra Her
awesome work!
I was captivated by your work and the poem, it's amazing how you play with a concept, add symbolism and capture your thoughts or experiences around it, besides, your drawing style is fun, it's authentic and the color palette is harmonic, there are so many little details to observe, so many textures, so many meanings, that make this work a little world. I definitely enjoyed your work.
Thank you so much, @nicxi. I'm so happy that you enjoyed it and that you felt related. These works have my deepest feelings and toughts, and it's the best way that I express myself.
I so love surreal and conceptual art and I adore how this construct of art is played out in this amazing colourful illustrative style, so wonderful @alejandra.her it's truly amazing.
Very brilliant, I like artworks that use symbols and coded messages. Also your graphic style is amazing 😍
You have a great illustrative style and perfectly interweave intrigues in details - like and follow: D
Congratulations @alejandra.her!
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