ARTIST STATEMENT:
“Stop and Smell The Daises.” is a collection of studies encompassing details of life. These works force my movement to slow down in retrospective to my own personal lessons —mirrored in nature.
The necessary reminder to “stop and smell the daisies.”
INDIVIDUAL WORK STATEMENTS:
“Do you know what happens when you divide honey bees in the winter?”
72”x180”
Oil, Ink, Sand, Resin, and Glass on Canvas
2021
This was the work I created to describe us as a society in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The honey bee’s representing us, splitting apart slowly without facing the reality that they can not survive without each other. Intentionally painting the bees in real scale, knowing they would find themselves individually lost to the human-eye in it’s large scale abstraction. I used the specific color palette to give the viewer the sense of beauty and peace within the contradiction of its own tragedy.
The reality that when you divide honey bees in the winter, they do not survive.
“Have you seen what blossoms in the coldest winters?”
72”x96”
Acrylic, Ink, Glass, Resin and Sand on Canvas
2021
The bird of paradise,
This flower is specific to the most innocent phase of my childhood. These flowers lined the side of the beautiful historic Spanish home in San Jose, California my family lived in. It was the last home in my childhood I knew as a physical home, everything following that time seemingly became a series of temporary homes.
As the bird of paradise blossoms in the coldest times, I have consistently found my most beauty and growth as a result of the coldest winters in my life.
STOP AND SMELL THE DAISIES, 2019 CONCEPTION
© CALDERON ARTWORK, LLC. 2022