“Every important artist invents his own space.”
   – Hans Hofmann

Unlike conventional landscapes that attempt to capture a snapshot or scene from nature, my landscapes are existential imaginations born out of memory, time and vision. I do not reduce nature by abstraction. Instead, I explore color, space and history as a means to organically construct my image. These paintings are rationally analyzed twilights taken from the earth’s memory. Devoid of conventional icons, these color field works are intended as a rediscovery of the very essence of the earth’s origins. They provide the viewer with a catharses of its internal experience.

Nature is romanticized and historicized so that it is analogous with one’s self or the soul, removing the structure and conventional to accommodate the spiritual or divine. A space not to be filled or simply observed, but to become something alive in itself.

Color, surface and texture recreate a primordial realm of ethereal landscapes, through which the earth’s stream of consciousness is revealed sharing intimacy, pleasure and melancholy.

Alex Espalter-Torres