J. Barrios

"Changes..." (Feb 2017)

15.5" x 11"  (approx)

Watercolor, acrylic, various pens (Sakura, Le Pen, Micron, etc), used coffee filters, coffee grinds, candy foil and paper on used tea bag packets on cardboard. 

The piece represents the distress one undergoes in the face of identity stressors where the shift to adapt, or avoidance  to adapting, to this new or different way of being causes friction. Between the expected and the changes one must undergo, this friction state has become personified as the ‘skeleton’ - an indecisive state where they are reaching, grasping and wanting for anything and any motive that would grant security and sense of wholeness while in a landscape full of pitfalls, obstacles and sentries. In similar fashion this reaction to identity modification is represented another way in the wandering miniature black figures that dot the scene in this piece (and in many other pieces). These have come to represent a kind of ‘self-portrait state’, a sort of final mood state in summary to the overall environment of the piece.

Status: For Sale, please inquire.