“I’m more of an engineer than an artist,” Diaz said. “I have to see what this will be like, on any part of the paper or canvas I can do, how it will fit.”
Diaz said it was actually his sketch. “To me, it’s like a building,” he said. “To me, the magic is in the sketch.”
After seeing the Witkin exhibition helps inspire his creativity, Diaz is fascinated by attracting human anatomy. He talks about the greatest miracle of the human body – as he said, “this machine just created” and the rarity of our existence. “For me, we even have conversations here, which is incredible to me,” he said. It is awe of the pure facts of human existence that Diaz is committed to communicating through his art. “It’s incredible humility,” he said.
While science was Diaz’s inspiration, it wasn’t the only one. It’s also an incredible personal job.
“To me, art is purely about expressing my true self,” Diaz said. “It’s like a diary. I can’t fake it.”
His art struggles with the dichotomy of humanity’s constant search for understanding the causes of our existence. He uses reason, emotion, knowledge and belief. As Diaz explains: “There is a part of me that is very logical. I like hard science and hard facts. But this side of me is also very esoteric, magic and mystic. I think it stems from growing up in a very Catholic way.”
Religious portraits, especially depictions of the Virgin Mary, which is often seen in the Catholic Church, also appear in Diaz’s works, reflecting his personal history. “I’m such a Catholic boy,” he said with a smile. As an adult, he deviated from religion and his ideas about it became more complicated as time went by. He talks about the art that inspired him himself to be inspired by his faith in God. “These guys are the highest-level skilled architects, writers, artists, artisans, they do these things in respect of this religion,” he said. “I think there is something really beautiful and very interesting.”
Religion pushes artists to the highest level of skilled creation, “but,” Diaz said, “it can also drive people to destroy each other.” These contradictions in humanity penetrate into his art. “I have a lot of anxiety in my job,” he explained. “Like I said, my job is a diary about what I feel right now, and I just feel a lot of anxiety. And my anxiety. Do I not believe in religion? Is it just that this is the back and forth driving you crazy? Do you know it’s not true? Isn’t it true? Do I know? Do you know?
For me, art is purely about expressing my true self,” Diaz said. “It’s like a diary. I can’t fake it. ”
“I think it’s something that resonates with people,” he added.
Diaz’s work is full of symbols and visual cues, bringing a lot of thought to the audience while arousing its curiosity. Diaz carefully planned his images, but he wasn’t specific about most of the tools he used to create, which he speculated was because he didn’t learn the art. “I remember starting to make paintings on cardboard and not even knowing you shouldn’t do that,” he said.
However, the exception is when Diaz uses old-fashioned paper. That’s what he can be very picky. “It has to have a smooth texture and the paper has to be like quality quality to get the right lines and shadows I want,” he said. “If there is too much texture, it won’t work.”
Like old-fashioned books and journals, Diaz art feels fragile, and like life, these works may not be able to withstand the range of age. Maybe that’s part of Diaz’s focus. “If my artwork disappears, I will‘Please note,” he said. “in the case of‘S hangs on the wall, it scatters in chaos,‘OK it‘S should do this. ”
Diaz said his art is not about self-improvement of the intention to exist forever. “I don’t‘He really cares. ” he said.‘I just expressed myself in this art magazine. ”*
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