It's simple
I paint because I have to
“The character for ‘mob’ is formed from the character for‘nobility’on one side, and the character for ‘sheep’ on the other. So that’s what a mob is, a herd of sheep that turns into a pack of wolves because they believe themselves to be serving a noble cause.”
― Ken Liu
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Romelio Rivera
My work is my visual confession. Most
of my paintings are a personal commentary of my experiences in a raw
external world. They are my gestural validation and cathartic
process.
I am a compulsive explorer, mining constantly for clues
leading to reality. My paintings reflect a cryptic language
that is found just below the surface of my identity, a language with
an alphabet made up of marks, lines, shapes and colors.
My work
starts out without a destination until it's eventually revealed
somewhere along the journey. I work without a map, opening
dialogues within, voices, memories, ideas, fears. As I work, I
confront them and project them outward. Examining humanity is not
without risk. My work has become my exorcism.
“If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means - conform with the herd and obey blindly.”
― Graeme Rodaughan
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“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of the vengeful disguised as judges, who constantly bear the word “justice” in their mouths like poisonous spittle, always with pursed lips, always ready to spit upon all who are not discontented but go their own way in good spirits…The will of the weak to represent some form of superiority, their instinct for devious paths to tyranny over the healthy – where can it not be discovered, this will to power of the weakest!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
