SOMNAMBULIST

“SOMNAMBULIST (SELF-PORTRAIT)”
MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
51 x 48 in © 1994 GABRIEL NAVAR

This is another self-portrait completed in 1994. I also included my family in the background ( the decapitated heads of my family members hanging on a vein-thread, linking and suspending us as a family unit ). The hanging heads (as morbid as it may be) represent the mental connections that we share, for example, the notion of kindred memories. The entire visual concoction is not unlike something out of a (nightmarish) dream… a somnambulist “mind-tropolis” where many busy, surrealist elements co-exist.

Gabriel Navar

Lit Eve of the Coils

“LIT EVE OF THE COILS”
ACRYLIC, WAX, CAULK, MARBLES, & OIL ON CANVAS
57 X 42 in © 1994 GABRIEL NAVAR

Old Discoveries

“OLD DISCOVERIES”

MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS
34 x 40 in © 1994 Gabriel Navar

This is another older painting created in 1994. It was inspired by a dream I had of my then employer. In my dream my boss was handing his heart to a spirit. I soon learned that my employer needed a heart surgery. Quite eerie.

Gabriel
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