Helwing Villamizar

While French surrealist Yves Tanguy used the decalcomania technique in his 1936 works Paysage I and Paysage II, the production of decalcomanias has not been confined to art. At Yale University, fingerpaint decalcomanias have been analyzed for their tendency to generate fractals when the process is repeated several times on the same paper. From landscape motifs to stoic pictorial symbols and abstract paintings, the techniqueContinue Reading "Decalcomanias"

Photo albums began as research journals. During the 1830s and 1940s, inventors maintained diaries of their research, which contained photo records of experiments. These were not disclosed, as the contents of the albums were considered classified information. See the In Memoriam project for related works. Stoic Symbol Series

In this series, the Venezuelan landscape is shown as a tempestuous composite of towering mountains, tropical rainforests, broad river plains, and shores of crashing waves, all of which provide a diversity of natural habitats that are symbolic of the increasingly accentuated set of challenges to social integration and economic development in the Caribbean country. OilContinue Reading "Avila Tempestad"

“The observer is the image looking at the image which he has created about the other. So the relationship between the observer and the observed is not a relationship. It is two images looking at each other.” J. Krishnamurti. Excerpt from “The Real Revolution” – Part 2. “Photography has almost no reality; it is almostContinue Reading "Dailies"

Oil paint monotypes over brushed paintings.

Oil on Magazine Paper. 26x17cm. 2022 Oil on Magazine Paper. 26x17cm. 2022

Biophobia is the fear of nature, which covers aversion to and discomfort in natural places. These paintings are for those who detest nature.

A panorama is a picture covering the entire landscape; a theatrical device using a long, rolled-up panoramic painting; the silhouette, total or partial view, of the tallest structures and buildings; and a work of art that reveals a broad, global view of a particular subject, often a landscape, a military battle, or a historical event.Continue Reading "Panoramas"

The world is in a crash collision of opinion bombs, failed policies, daggered words, multiple realities, fake news, and unrequited desires. We are the consequence of a sudden burst of rapid expansion an instant after the Big Bang, blowing up from an infinitesimally small speck to one spanning a quarter of a billion light-years inContinue Reading "The Crash Series"

I do not seek to contradict some aspects of modernism or what emerged or developed in its aftermath.

Midterm elections in the United States are the general elections that are held near the midpoint of a president’s four-year term of office, on Election Day, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Federal offices that are up for election during the midterms include all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the UnitedContinue Reading "Election Cycle"

Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are actually not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the other inmates of the cave doContinue Reading "The Cave"