An overly occupied daily schedule provided the incentive to create a system for generating a body of visual work, which could express a complex aesthetic within my time limitations. My goal was to find a method to make a unique drawing that was aesthetically intricate and seemed to be created by long, laborious and tedious hours, but took a faction of the time to generate and also defied a factory-made appearance.

The solution has been a type of drawing which, within the discipline of painting, is more accidental than automatic in nature. It also borrows heavily from printmaking and the mono-print process specifically. The process is at once delicate and violent.

Much like our own existence, each drawing is explicitly unique and carries specific characteristics from all the others. Viewed as a group, the unifying denominator is this uniqueness whose accidental nature is put into question as the “accident” is repeated time and time again.

For me, the series has come to reflect our Western culture’s present hunger for the complex and instant gratification, which originally limited me, but has ultimately enabled me in this artistic direction.

- Jesus De La Rosa