← The Other Florida

A pastel coastline where coral and water gather into a sleeping face beneath the surface, a sailboat and a curling palace above.

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What the Water Remembers

A Florida coastline becomes a portrait as coral, water and submerged forms gather into a human face. The figure appears less like someone entering the landscape than someone being remembered by it. Above the water, architecture, sailboat and shoreline represent the temporary world people construct and inhabit. Beneath it exists another Florida where structures sink, nature reclaims form and memories accumulate beyond human sight. Instead of asking how we remember a place, the work asks how a place might remember us.

Enzo Vela · What the Water Remembers
Composition study, Study dimensions variable
Florida
Study · Concept and composition by Enzo Vela. The developed composition becomes the foundation for a painting realized in oil.
In development

The question behind the painting

If we leave our memories in places, what do those places remember about us?

The shell in this work

From Florida, Remembered in Dreams · a study in Tidal Surrealism.