Artist Statement
“What If?” this question gives birth to every piece, these words begin the transformation of a blank piece of paper into a window to a new world, familiar, yet unknown. Every time this happens I get this feeling of looking at the world for the first time, with fresh eyes without the curtain of routine hiding my surroundings. The need to preserve this feeling is what motivates me to paint. My goal is to never lose this sense of amazement for the world that surrounds me.
I find myself drawn to day to day scenes, objects and places that I see everyday before my eyes until they become intriguing. I like to observe and analyze these “familiar” scenes from unexpected angles and unusual positions, even uncomfortable ones, until they become unknown, new, intriguing to my eyes.
When I'm painting I try to capture the colors that appear as reflections, lasting just one second, shadows that appear in the corner of my eye but disappear when I try to look at them. It is when they come together as one: shadows and reflections, that the world around me is forgotten and its possibilities begin, once again, to amaze me.
“What If?” this question gives birth to every piece, these words begin the transformation of a blank piece of paper into a window to a new world, familiar, yet unknown. Every time this happens I get this feeling of looking at the world for the first time, with fresh eyes without the curtain of routine hiding my surroundings. The need to preserve this feeling is what motivates me to paint. My goal is to never lose this sense of amazement for the world that surrounds me.
I find myself drawn to day to day scenes, objects and places that I see everyday before my eyes until they become intriguing. I like to observe and analyze these “familiar” scenes from unexpected angles and unusual positions, even uncomfortable ones, until they become unknown, new, intriguing to my eyes.
When I'm painting I try to capture the colors that appear as reflections, lasting just one second, shadows that appear in the corner of my eye but disappear when I try to look at them. It is when they come together as one: shadows and reflections, that the world around me is forgotten and its possibilities begin, once again, to amaze me.
Marilyn Marquez Mercado