SaveWindow of the Soul
| Year of creation | 2017 |
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| Dimensions | 120 W × 90 H × 5 D cm |
| Type of art | painting |
| Style | surrealism |
| Genre | interior |
| Materials | oil, paper |
| Framing | the artwork is sold with framing |
| Type of packaging | wooden box |
Description of the Artwork “Window of the Soul”
This work has a lot of symbolism, the summary of what it tells us is that we are always in connection with our environment, we just have to look inside ourselves to discover our own nature and how it is connected to the rest of creation. Seeing the elements separately, the moon tells us about duality, the unknown and cyclical changes, the window tells us about opening towards a world in which we see a butterfly, a symbol of transformation, the mask worn by the woman. It shows how we often cover up our own nature, although the birds that are on its head and are the ones that hold the ropes that connect it to the cloud speak of natural wisdom, of our unbreakable connection with the world that surrounds us. The work is made on stone paper, a paper considered ecological because hardly any water is used in its production and no wood is used, it is already mounted on a board.
Artwork in the interior
José Luis Montes, Mexico
Concern for nature and the space we inhabit has been a constant on a personal level and as such has been reflected in many of my works over time. I am currently focusing my work on women; the woman as a symbol of strength and tenacity and also as a guardian and connoisseur of the cycles of nature and I am painting her along with floral and animal elements that show her coexisting with nature. I use this, on the one hand, to draw attention to the fact that there is less and less nature to interact with, and on the other hand, as a reminder that we have to listen to the rest of the beings in nature, because we are not independent. from it and we cannot sustain ourselves outside of it, we need to understand that we are one and the same and that is what I intend to convey with my work, that people stop a little to think about how we are destroying the habitat of the macaws or how we are taking our diet towards the absurd, for example. I also like to use everyday elements to form and assemble the work as an allegory, guiding the observer into the interior of the painting, so that from there they themselves can discover their interpretation or can start a conversation with the work.