"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Keep in Touch (from set #4)" (2004)
"Keep in Touch (from set #4)," 2004
Mixed media on paper, 13 parts, 18 x 17 inches
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Mixed media on paper, 13 parts, 18 x 17 inches
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
"Sometimes I use found, printed paper with images that I submit to a painter friend. I tell him to delete specific items out of this ‘stage-set’ (maybe the references are too didactic; maybe they’re too clear), and he creates original paintings with a wash. So he deletes some elements, and then it becomes a complete abstraction and, now, something can be applied on top of this image."
- Arturo Herrera



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