Ayuart

In examining Ayuart's works, we have already discussed how the artist uses and explores the digital medium to make it ductile and malleable, adapting it to her expressive needs. In this critical text, I want to focus instead on the artist's peculiar ability to create new worlds and new universes, each infused with unprecedented emotionality and sensations. In fact, the color, line, shape and layering process in the artist's works produces not just mere physical places but actual mental and emotional states that feed incessantly on color and form. Like a continuous cycle, a silhouette invites observation of the form next to it and so on in a perpetual motion that produces thoughts and associations. In "SAMURAI" a claustrophobic and looming space ignites our eyes. The atmosphere is rather dark and characterized by rather acid tones that tease our vision by creating and accentuating points of interest. Flame-like elements of acid green color are contrasted with purplish patches and splashes characterized by red and blood pigment. The formal rendering of the latter color is a clear reference to violence, to the splashes of blood spilled incessantly throughout human history. A saying goes that wars will never end as long as men exist, and, "SAMURAI," is meant to be a warning, an invitation to observe all the pain, all the blood and lives, that have been broken, during battles. From the multifaceted color sea rises a filiform and elegant katana, the Samurai's favorite weapon and firm symbol of honor. The weapon stands displaced from the center of gravity of the work as if its formal elegance and slender beauty could not counterbalance the horror and terror caused by the blood spilled during battles. Effectively, Ayuart does not skimp on the inclusion of stains, splashes, blotches and smears of reddish elements, evidently referable to the concept of death and despair.