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Lotus Bazaldua
Throughout my education at UTSA, the University of the Incarnate Word, and San Antonio College, I have developed a strong foundation in a variety of artistic techniques and practices while learning from accomplished artists and educators. For all of my life, I have been driven by a passion for creativity and a desire to transform ideas into works of art. I create art that I find visually compelling, guided by a disciplined process that reflects who I am. Every drawing begins as a vision in my mind and evolves into a carefully constructed image that expresses my thoughts and emotions. Working primarily in black and white with graphite, charcoal, and paint, I explore surrealism through intricate details and imaginative compositions that combine memory, emotion, and symbolism into scenes frozen in time. As I continue to grow as both an artist and an individual, I strive to create a cohesive body of work that is unmistakably my own and invites viewers to engage with its emotional and visual depth. Working primarily in black and white with graphite, charcoal, and paint, I value the expressive power of monochromatic media, allowing texture, contrast, and form to carry emotional weight.
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Artist Type: Visual Arts: Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor
Artist Style: Visual Art: Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Experimental, Expressionistic, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Illustrative
Artist Medium: Acrylic; Clay; Colored Pencil; Drawing Media; Glass; Oil; Watercolor
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
I work in charcoal, graphite, and paint across all sizes, from small studies to large-scale works. I build surreal drawings and paintings of shifting figures and unstable spaces where bodies, objects, and environments overlap and break apart. My work comes from constant internal overthinking layers of thoughts and images forming at the same time. I’m not illustrating finished ideas, but translating the experience of thought as it happens. These works make that internal noise physical. When I’m quiet in life, the work becomes where that pressure and mental overflow take form.
