"Branches of Vitality and Mortality" Silvana Gabriela Valencia

Oil on Canvas. 48"x40"

Year: 2020

I've always been fascinated by branched structures and the fractal pattern that connects all living organisms to the most basic universal forms. This is the idea "at the heart" of this painting. The juxtaposition of the heart and the corals as vital. organs. We must treasure these as we must treasure the kindness in our hearts. We are one and the same; which is why this painting can be appreciated as shown or inverted.

Climate change, it is a Global phenomenon of climate transformation specially caused by human activities. We need to work as a unit to combat this fact. As the way the universe works keeping everything connected.
This painting expresses that statement. From the inner core of the world, flowers, pollen, and bees provide the majority of biotic pollination and are at risk for different factors. The inner core is connected to coral reefs. 25% of the ocean's fish depend on healthy coral reefs. The world needs our kindness .

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Gabriela is a visual artist and violinist, passionate about arts and culture advocacy. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Owner of Gabriela Valencia Studio and Gallery at St. Pete Beach, Florida from 2013 to 2020. Currently she is teaching art, music to elementary and middle school, always able to come up with ideas that will take the arts to a different level for the good of the society.

Gabriela's artwork has been featured in private collections and galleries, art centers, museums, magazines, newspapers in Ecuador and Florida, USA. Among other female artists in Athens, Greece.

As well, she has been involved in a spectrum of multidisciplinary artistic, educational and cultural projects with local and international collectives and nonprofit organizations. Music education, the arts and community work are the foundation of her career.

At the present time Gabriela is developing COLLAGE, an Artistic and Social Project for immigrants living in the Tampa Bay Area.

"My art finds real meaning when I connect with the dreams of others"