BELINDA FLORES-SHINSHILLAS

Does It Hurt Me? Offerings through human history has been associated with religious and spiritual connotations making them an intricate part of human love and suffering. Even if we are beings with a very defined individuality, we have always lived with a group of peers crafting community and culture. Since we have developed ourselves as makers, giving has been a common practice in our own nature. Every time we create, we do it sharing, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes with a specific purpose. Being makers and creators compels us to give. Although, giving is a common form of offering in every community, artists and poets have made this practice a cultural conversation about spiritual connection, that is an ongoing practice. By recognizing the complexities of historical rituals of offering, we could add our own voices to our contemporary cultural conversation through the art of giving. Art speaks to us as a spiritual force that shakes our conform zone feeling de

Offerings through human history has been associated with religious and spiritual connotations making them an intricate part of human love and suffering. Even if we are beings with a very defined individuality, we have always lived with a group of peers crafting community and culture. Since we have developed ourselves as makers, giving has been a common practice in our own nature. Every time we create, we do it sharing, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes with a specific purpose. Being makers and creators compels us to give. Although, giving is a common form of offering in every community, artists and poets have made this practice a cultural conversation about spiritual connection, that is an ongoing practice. By recognizing the complexities of historical rituals of offering, we could add our own voices to our contemporary cultural conversation through the art of giving. Art speaks to us as a spiritual force that shakes our confort zone feeling devotion, passion, love, d

DECIPHER Installation Decipher means translate from code, or more generally, to figure it out. Sometimes images include signs or icons that we cannot identify or that seem out of place. To be able to discover someone’s essence look at their eyes, and you will find it.   Decipher is an installation of 12 oil paintings on aluminum panels 8 x 8 inches each that are part of the project Decoding the Purity of an Icon. This installation seeks to uncover the purity of a woman’s soul through the light and expressivity of their eyes.   An individual's thoughts and feelings can be discovered by looking into his or her eyes. The great Roman philosopher Cicero said, "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." In Matthew the bible uncovers that, "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light with

We’re All Alike is an installation of a series of 24 charcoal drawings (22 x 27 inches each approximately) exploring these similitudes we all share through portraiture. Inspired by the tradition of Gold Glass Roman Medallions portraying noted persons such as kings, queens and the wealthy, this series takes the simplicity of the work itself presenting the traditional bust of the individual over a black background allowing the power of his/her personality to emerge.  We’re All Alike takes this tradition to a contemporary display of common men and women through the most basic, intimate and important medium in Visual Arts. Labels of race, gender, sexual orientation and social status don't interfere within this body of work. The similarities all people share are the foundation of this art installation. We're All Alike will be on view at  the Artfields 2018 Competition in Lake City, South Carolina  from April 20th to 28th at The ROB. 245 S. Church St, Lake City, SC 29560

WE’RE ALL ALIKE ART INSTALLATION OF DRAWINGS As a species, we share biological and physiological features but, as humans we have sociological and spiritual similitudes that make us the most powerful leading mammal on the planet. Even though humans share one hundred percent of the same genes, the orders contained within the genes are not entirely identical. Each person is unique. Despite differences caused by specific geographical areas of origin and orders in DNA we keep the most basic and fundamental characteristics. We’re All Alike is an installation of a series of 24 charcoal drawings (22 x 27 inches each approximately) exploring these similitudes we all share through portraiture. Inspired by the tradition of Gold Glass Roman Medallions portraying noted persons such as kings, queens and the wealthy, this series takes the simplicity of the work itself presenting the traditional bust of the individual over a black b