This piece began with the idea of departure, exploring what happens when we step away from the structures we’ve relied on or even helped build. The title “Left Foundations” can refer to something political, architectural, or emotional. I wanted to leave it open, but I loaded it.
The grid of gray circles anchors the piece; it feels like a floor plan, or maybe a pixelated scaffold. It’s regular, almost machine-like. But the other forms push against it: layered, organic, transparent, drifting. The green shapes on the right suggest leaves, screens, or thresholds, depending on how you view them. They feel like a portal or a reorientation, a way of suggesting growth without certainty.
On the left, the stacked color circles move like a rising or descending code, something soft but systematic. And below them, the floral bursts pull the painting back into something more human, less designed. They’re wild, almost celebratory, blooming through the grid like they were never meant to be contained.
This work is about moving on, sometimes with intention, sometimes without a map. It asks what we leave behind when we outgrow a system, and what new language begins to form in its place.
8 x 10 in. | Acrylic on wood panel
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 