The collection · 2017
Desire to Create

- Artist
- Samael Casanova Ortiz
- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Style
- Realism and abstraction
- Year
- 2017
- Dimensions
- 57 × 122 cm
- Price
- Price on request
- Status
- Available
Every work is unique. Shipping and framing are agreed directly with the artist.
The story behind the work
This work, though somewhat mysterious and almost mischievous, is not that at all. I wanted it to look that way in order to see the viewer’s interpretation, like a prank, when in truth it is me... me made of paint, like a giant, like a child creating with modelling clay, blinded by my passion and obsession with creating. And I feel so giant when I create, so naive and so much a child at the same time.
How I loved playing with my toys as a boy. Now my toys are my paints, my brushes, my palettes, my violin, my guitar. We are all still playing, we will always be children, and one day we will be every age at once. How wonderful it is to live, how wonderful it is to keep playing.