We are human beings we are not machines and therefore we are faulty, we must leave our blemish, our human stamp on everything we do.

OSCAR ANGEL REY SOTO

Painting from the series “The Sheltering Sky” based on the books by Paul Bowles.

This series of paintings are designed and created as comfortable rooms for the senses through the lines of his writings.

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it’s having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

#Paulbowles

Tissue Paper

300gsm cotton paper

Collage

Pencil

Markers

Painting

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment

Body

City

Contemporary

Contemporary Abstract

Culture

Dream

Interior

Landscape

Modern

Collage, marker and graphite on Japanese paper.

All the lost friends, forgotten in their tombs, the loves that never came and those that have never left, the stale odors and the rotten behaviors that we do not want or can not change, are our little black submarines, who come to attack us, when least we expect it.

The idea for this painting and poem came from listening to the song “Little Black Submarines” by #theblackkeys.

Japanese Paper

Acid free Paper

All the lost friends, forgotten in their tombs

Abstract

Figurative

Geometric

Love

People

Pop Culture

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”

André Malraux

Paper

Ink on canvas

“If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?"

Portret

Memory

Collage and red marker on paper.
Painting based on a quote from the book “Meditations” by #MarcusAurelius :

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”

Think of this moment, in which you are reading this text and seeing this painting, this eternal and unrepeatable moment, just the fact that it exists is a miracle.

 

I have used a selection of origami paper, bought on my last visit to Tokyo, and the wrapping paper of a bookstore in Berlin.

Environment

Travel

History

Painting from the series “The Sheltering Sky” based on the books by Paul Bowles: “Immediately when you arrive in Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails outside the towns; and within, even in busy places like the markets, there is a hushed quality in the air, as if the quiet were a conscious force which, resenting the intrusion of sound, minimizes and disperses sound straightaway”
#Paulbowles

OSCAR REY

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