Islas y Mares ARTISTS_José Ortiz-Pagán My works are intricately constructed

My works are intricately constructed with detritus from my life

the offset lithograph Prayer and Struggle depicts a mother's handwritten prayer pleading for the safety of her son

My goal is to express the messages from the unconscious

and discarded plastic water bottles

and illustrations from disparate sources and bringing them into conversation on a single surface

Islas y Mares ARTISTS_José Ortiz-Pagán My works are intricately constructedFrom the Artist I have symbols in my work. The first, indeed, is the city as a container of joys, sorrows, longings of the human, the other is the pendulum, which is a symbol of timeand the other is the fruit of allegorical pleasure. Excerpted from https: www. picassomio. com jose omar torres. html, accessed 6 18 2021 Except for minor exceptions, all the work of Jos Omar Torres transits between the figurative and the abstract, with a certain