Jardín I, acrylic on canvas, 20"x16", 2026

Panamá (El Valle)

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The first of this new "series"—the garden series.  While the vision of the Monte series is to capture the biodiversity of Panamanian jungles through a voyeuristic lens, like slices of reality, the Jardín series, to be honest, aims to do the same.  This work is photographic in nature (see what I did there) because I feel like the purpose of it is to celebrate a real place and moment, and bring it to your home. 

So I go wandering, taking the reference photos. 

Before naming this one "Monte IV", I stopped for a second and thought, this doesn't read like jungle, does it... because it isn't.  I talked to my mother about it and she agreed.  It looks manufactured, because it is.  It's from a photo I took in a very lush garden.  A jungly, beautiful, garden.  My cousin got married in this garden, which is why I made this for her.

Portraiture is what I do.  This is a portrait of a humid moment in El Valle.

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