Jimena Parra

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The central idea of my process is the concept of thought and its peculiar dynamic. In our daily lives, we are constantly trapped in a web of endless thought, which never stops. I wanted to portray this web, which is hard to picture, due to its magnitude and ambiguity.

However, I used my own disorder of ideas and translated that language into the canvases.

I used the term "rhizome" which refers to the path of thought which is never linear. One thought leads to the other, and idea may be a catalyzer of another one and so on. In my work I used sometimes a saturated composition to show the amount of ideas that one can have. Also, most of my work has letters. This letters are random things I wrote about every thing that I was thinking about, and then I used these sentences as an esthetical tool and turned them into part of the composition. Constantly I used the technique of collage, which shows layer on top of another and create an image that is a closer look to the path of thought, in which one layer of thought may cover the other, but not completely.