Michael R Lopez - Fine Art Photography & Documentation

Artist Statement

Michael R Lopez (b.1994) seeks to construct a fictional universe influenced from human behavior, supernatural elements and mystery with Rorschach-like sensibilities. He develops fictional stories in which he draws from to create otherworldly shapes, forms, symbols and compositions into unfamiliar visual languages. The imagery he makes brings a sense of melancholy and solitude while also invoking one's own imagination to move and play beyond the bounds of reality. He is interested in why we hate, annihilate our environments and how we easily get brainwashed by others. He metaphorically seeks to expose the dark and psychological trauma people have within. He amalgamates it all together to construct new worlds of his own. He blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction. He aims to portray moods of atmosphere, suspense, dread, edginess, strangeness and otherness to showcase a war between good and evil. Michael uses the medium of charcoal on canvas to develop high contrast, bold, black and white, negative and positive drawings.