Armando Baeza

THE UNIVERSAL SPEAKS ALL TONGUES timelessness and universality in art is an important ingredient to me. In the visual arts, as in all arts, no one likes aesthetic restrictions, though some of us may unconsciously or unknowingly impose them on ourselves. Aesthetics with universality communicates in the language of one’s soul. Every region and village on earth has its art that explicitly expresses its generational cultural identity, also some, who try to reach beyond, expressing things transcending cultures and generations in a manner that does not compromise the meaning, but extend the understanding of one's own culture and time, I have worked from this philosophical position with comfort for most of my career. I strive to express the essence of the subject matter that I feel touches concerns of sensibility and universality meaning in me and hopefully in others also. The attempt is not to shock, but to acknowledge the essence of the familiar by adding an unfamiliar feeling to the ordinary, exploring emotions never quite sensed the same by me. Creating a design without a relation to anything, but with a significant "presence" within its unity, that often reveals the strength of the symbolic message it represents.