The work "The Other" stems from a fascination with
an everyday logo of a boy promoting oranges. I then imagined and painted in oil
the teenager that the logo's boy would become, whose iconic Happiness fades as
he approaches realism. Finally, in the fully realized degree of photographic
realism, we have his adult version, found among a crowd, with a hard but
revealing expression. The common graphic clues between the works can be found
in the color of the shirts and the choice of frames.
Inspired by the story The Other by Borges, in
which the writer imagines a conversation with his younger self, this work
delves into the theme of identity and otherness through the dialectic of the
image.
It is a three-step biography that presents a
melancholic view of a logo.
