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New Art, Tonalli Exhibit, Water Painting
Monday, September 16, 2013 at 07:03PM 
El Pez Por Su Propia Boca Muere/ The Fish by its own Mouth Dies 22x30 by M. Diaz
El Pez detail 22x30 Mixed Media Ink painting by M.Diaz
el Pez detail by M.Diaz
Me with 'El Pez Por Su Propia Boca Muere'
This was one of the first pieces I developed for the Tonalli Exhibit in Arnold Maryland his month, though it's the third piece I'm revealing here. It is entitled, El Pez Por Su Propia Boca Muere which translates to the fish by its very own mouth dies. It has three-dimensional pieces on it and is encased in a coating of resin, hard to photograph due to the gloss.
It's funny how I found the pieces which are 22x30 so large when working on them, but it appears so much smaller on the gallery wall- all the white wall space just eats it up.
Obviously this is the water piece in the Earth, Air,Water and Fire series. I know some of my students are seriously freaked out about the hook in the mouth, though I'm sorry for that, I still feel it's one of my strongest pieces when it comes to wordlessly communicating my emotions and my inability to be understood.
Reader Comments (2)
This is positively AWESOME!
After looking into the painting, i gets the idea that we all people are also like fishes. We may have a free life like a fish, living our life our way. But some day this is all gonna end. Like a fish gets caught by a fisherman, we all are going to get caught by the death. Death is inevitable.