Omar Reyna | An Ocean Roaming Through The Forest
Omar Reyna
An Ocean Roaming Through the Forest
FOCUS GALLERY
November 3 - 25, 2023
I started working on the photographs and mixed-media pieces exhibit here on early 2022. An Ocean Roaming through the Forest is an exploration of turbulence as a physical phenomenon and as a metaphor to refer to complex situations in our daily existence. Turbulent flow is a scientific term for the unpredictable motion of a fluid; it is partly measurable so we know it is everywhere. What is not known, with certainty, is how it starts but above all, its evolution is impossible to estimate once it appears: complete unpredictability. Due to its erratic behaviour, the energy involved in a turbulent event is uncontrollable; however, not unlimited. So, when life gets turbulent, it would probably be good to remember that much of the physical world is powered by moving flows of unpredictable behaviour with uncontrollable vortices and fluctuations.
At the moment, I’m inquiring about the auditory part of turbulence: the sound of the unpredictable and uncontrollable, like the sound of the wind, the moving water, the sound of the forest and the beings who live there and also the sound of the everyday. I expect from 6 months to one year until this project reaches its final state.
OMAR REYNA
Omar Reyna is a Canadian artist that seeks the materialization of the work of art at a midpoint between research and the activity of making. He produces photographic base projects with a wide range of media. In his view, making while experimenting is a form of physical thinking.
Born in Mexico City and now settled in the Yukon, Omar studied visual communication and has studies in photography, sculpture, painting, and the philosophy of image. His work has been exhibited in Hungary, the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada, Argentina, South Korea and Italy.
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