J Valenzuela Didi

Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2023 - Finalist

_{[Image courtesy of the artist and Lethbridge Gallery]}

J Valenzuela Didi | Fragmented Still Life 1030X | 2022 | acrylic | 91 x 91cm

Artist Statement

I have a great interest in spatial cognition and the mind’s ability to perceive the relationship between objects in space and the influence of memory. In the absence of details, reading an image becomes a process of re-construction, with the viewer’s prior physical and emotional knowledge contributing to the scene.

Fragmented Still Life 1030X is a geometric arrangement that I have created as a meditative construct. The shapes are intended to pulsate between two and three dimensions, at once holding a structural form and serenely floating. It is a silent mantra, an ordered map of the intangible.