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Amanecer en el Bosque, by Sidhartta Mejía. A light that does not descend from the sky, but seems to emanate from the very entrails of matter, fractures the vegetal density across this vast surface.

Sidhartta Mejía

Amanecer en el Bosque

Year
2015
Technique
Epoxy Acrylic
Dimensions
160 × 124 cm
Status
Available
Palette
forest green, amber, earth brown, moss green, rust vermilion
Brushwork
Fluid resin glazes, sedimented textures, and fine linear filaments dripped in suspension over a textured background.

Curatorial analysis

A light that does not descend from the sky, but seems to emanate from the very entrails of matter, fractures the vegetal density across this vast surface. The space resolves into a humid, enveloping twilight dominated by moss greens, deep earth tones, and nearly mineral shadows. At the center, an amber incandescence breaks through like a luminous wound in the thicket, suggesting the exact instant daylight breaches the perpetual gloom of a primeval forest.

The treatment of the epoxy acrylic grants the surface a vitrified, geological quality. Through superimposed glazes, sedimentations, and textures that alternate between porous and fluid, the pictorial plane acquires a three-dimensional depth that ensnares the gaze. Across this ignited core fall golden filaments, slender drippings descending in vertical suspension: capillary lines that evoke lianas and vines as much as sunbeams condensing into physical threads. The imposing scale, over a meter and a half in height, dispenses with any horizon line or architectural anchor to enclose the viewer within a dense atmosphere with no escape.

Toward the base, the painting multiplies its thermal activity. Small embers of vermilion, touches of coral, and flickers of cerulean blue peek through the undergrowth, disrupting the central golden warmth with an unexpected chromatic vibration. This lower stratum behaves like living, fermenting leaf litter, where decay and emergence unfold simultaneously. The forest manifests here not as a bucolic or contemplative scenery, but as an overwhelming biological force, a closed organism breathing under its own regimen of fire and moisture.

Amanecer en el Bosque

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