During the months of confinement in 2020, the number of deaths from Covid 19 increased dramatically every day around the world. One of the most poignant images to frame my memory and go around the world like so many others was New York City’s Mass Graveyard on Hart Island during the pandemic. The dead that…
Author: jbanos2
Assignment #2 : Shapeways Print Juan
I have begun to develop a series entitled “Study to Revive a Beloved One” where I work with the concept of resurrection around memory and technological elements. Overall, in my work, I talk about the energy of people, places, and objects. I am also interested in the concept of life after death and phantasmagorical projections,…
Assignment 4# Stacked Slice Juan B.
From my background, I had a strong connection with religious imagery and baroque aesthetics very characteristic in my country. I wanted to recreate Jesus’ head in new contemporary material. Normally the religious imagery is sculpted in wood with a polychrome. At the same time, I wanted to play with the transparencies and shades that acrylic…
Horse Head Stick – Grandfather Energy – Juan Baños
Everything that makes up our world is made of energy, including the objects and things we live with. The object I have chosen is the head or effigy of a horse from a cane that belonged to my grandfather, which helped himself to walk. It is an object made of bronze and for me, it…