I found this print at the Museum of Latin American Art. The artists name is Andres Arizaga Codero and they are from Quito, Ecuador. The name of the print is “Damned Sleep” it is a color serigraph that is 16.5 x 24 inches and it was made in 2019. The print itself had a green, black, and white and it depicted nightmarish imagery. There were 3 flying heads with bat wings on the left, a voodoo doll looking figure on the right, and 5 flying ghosts in the top right. The flying heads looked like they were laughing in a evil and psychotic way and the doll looked very similar to the doll from the horror movie “trick or treat.” I think the figures were meant to represent a nightmarish and haunting feeling of dread and they were probably seen in a nightmare by the artist who made the print. They also had a very hand drawn pencil look to them which i appreciated. The background of the print is green and black. It had a sketchy and hazy look to it that adds to the atmosphere of the print. The size of the print was pretty big too and was most likely made in two parts, but printed on the same sheet of paper. The imagery immediately drew me in and became my favorite piece that i seen from that visit and it reminded me of some drawings that i have done in the past and of course of the horror movie “Trick or Treat”. I can relate to the ideas that were explored in this piece because i’ve had some pretty creepy nightmares too and i love the theme of horror and nightmares.
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