Artwork Description: Palakaw in the Ashes embody a philosophy where preparedness is a profound respect for life’s unpredictability. It honors the body’s capability to transform instinct into a shield for those we love. The work stands as a monument to that steady, internal resolve, representing the strength required to navigate chaos, absorb the friction of…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Crimson Suture explores the intersection of inherited martial discipline and the psychological labor of healing. The distressed bamboo, a primary tool of Balintawak, carries the trauma of sustained impact. Its organic cross-like grain patterns elicits a sense of structural sacrifice, by binding the fractured wood with crimson thread, the violent…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Dagger Emerged from Clay is the first work in an ongoing series inspired by Naomi’s training in knife fighting and Kajukenbo. The series examines the structural limits of clay through forms traditionally associated with knife making. This piece was hand-thrown and sculpted on the pottery wheel, then finished using a…
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Cuentada Balance explores the principles of Kajukenbo and Balintawak, martial arts Naomi has practiced since the age of five. Cuentada, meaning “counter for counter,” describes a continuous exchange in which every movement is a response to the one before it. Within Eskrima, the stick and blade function as extensions of…
Artwork Description: Contemporary ceramic teapot with an elongated overhead handle, displayed on a fractured stone base alongside untreated clay and sand. Inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes. Width: 21 Height: 17 Depth: 13 Custom Medium: Ceramics, raw clay sand, and stone Artwork year of completion: 2025 Price: 1800 Currency: USD : $ USD (US Dollar)
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: Inspired by the artist’s cat, Lemon, this contemporary teapot references the bright release of oil and scent when a citrus rind is first broken. The understated exterior conceals hand-painted underglaze and sgraffito drawings that become visible only when the piece is tilted to pour. By placing the artwork beneath the…
Artwork Description: Giclée of oil painting on canvas Width: 50 Height: 60 Custom Medium: Giclée; High resolutions print of oil painting on canvas Artwork year of completion: 2010 Price: 1600 Currency: EUR : € EUR (Euro)
Artwork Description: This work speaks of how beauty can keep on living even when it is no longer there. I didn’t paint an orchid, but the trace left by its petals; a subtle presence built through layers. Colombia, where I was born, is the country with the most diversity of orchid species in the world….
Additional Artwork Images: Artwork Description: For this piece, I was inspired in amazonian systems of cultivation. The cacao tree, from which chocolate comes from, was domesticated around 5000 years ago by Amazonian peoples in their gardens (chagras) immersed in the jungle and its biodiversity. From their chagras, cacao travelled through trade routes towards Mesoamerica. The…
Artwork Description: This piece is part of a series inspired in the Amazon river called “Paranaguasú”, which is how various peoples of this region had named the river in precolonial times. Paranaguasú is a name of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family and it means “the great river”. This name is accurate since this body of water…
