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Justin Garcia

Felt it Go

Felt it Go

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So many times in my life have I struggled to let go. From relationships, to jobs, to bad habits and the likes. I get comfortable in routine and before I know it I'm stuck, stuck in the old things that were at a time what I felt I needed. Like walking backwards into a forest and before you realize it you're lost in the depths unable to remember how you got there or how to get out. Even though I know it's time to let go and move on, when every sign is there telling me you have learned the things needed, or have rested enough... It takes everything to move myself forward. leave behind the part of myself that no longer serves me. In every phase of life there is a shedding of the old. But it's never without its mark, never unnoticed. Like pieces of us rusting off so we may begin again. Taking a new shape with the lessons of the past as a reminder of how far we have come. This painting, “Felt it Go”, is named to remark those moments when we are aware of the change, knowing it is hard but necessary. and when we let that piece of us go, it's bittersweet but as time goes on we are forever grateful. The shape and color of the piece is that of a lemon. Symbolizing the fruits of our life and the zest we bring to it as we change and evolve. The "piece" that looks to have fallen off from the painting is distinguished by the hard straight rusted edge. I imagine that if we never let go of this piece it would consume us in rust. And in order for us to live on we must shed the old. Yet it is never without a heavy heart as you always feel it go.

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About Justin Garcia

Justin Garcia, Born Houstonian, is influenced by the timeless connection between art and science studied by DaVinci. His lifelong fascination with aging and how change occurs over time led him to undergo a deep self-psychoanalysis through the abstraction of his first seven series spanning over a decade. All of Garcia’s earlier works are pieces of a larger puzzle. To analyze, document, and assemble this puzzle, he took two years away from the art scene, several months of which he spent isolated in central Mexico. There, he mapped and constructed a theoretical model that captures the intersection of experience, awareness, and control across time and subject matter (Humanity’s Sustainable Infinite (HSI)) . In late 2015, he announced the completion and publication of his first book, One Ton Goldfish: In Search of the Tangible Dream , a retrospective of his seven series in which Garcia’s pers...

Artist Statement

Art is an expression of the mind’s endless creativity, a doorway to everything in which humans are en-gaged. My work is the continuous result of studying a single question: Why ? My work focuses on the complexity of time and the human perception of it through the simplicity of aging walls as architectural structures representing reality. It is precisely the walls all around us that bring a sense of solace when confronting concepts of time and its infinite effect. As every surface, from that of the smallest pebble to the largest planet, is a wall, and every wall is a surface subjected to time....

Selected Highlights

  • 2020 Introduction, Debord International Fine Art and Southwest Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2017 Time Machine: Through the Walls of a Time Traveler, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston,
  • 2016 Walls of Time: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
  • STOP – listen and collaborate!, Pop-Up Museum in conjunction with The History of Houston’s
  • 2015 A Night at the Edmont, Grant Gordon Foundation Fundraiser, Edmont, Houston, TX

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