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The Reunion with My Inner Child.
My art is a reflection of the last forty years of my life. It is the visual and spiritual projection that documents the different stages and my personal growth. I began paint naif (folk art) when I was 20 years old, when I became pregnant with my first daughter. Those landscapes reflected the world of fantasy and a perfection that I dreamed of and wanted - infinite flower fields, churches, jungles, people, and animals.
My life and my art began to change when I got divorced, taking a significant turn with my pictorial language. Abstract expressionism began to take presedence in my work. Whereas before I sought serenity in landscapes and what I believed to be perfect, I found myself needing a complete deconstruction and liberation that I had never felt before. That's when the internal search for my true inner self began.
Through abstract brushstrokes and the physical movement that accompanied it like a dance, I started to discover my path and purpose in life - to be an artist and to convey and express the liberation and inner strength that I had found with my art.
In that moment of clarity, I decided to make a very necessary change for myself and my career as an artist - I moved to New York. The landscapes that now surrounded me were composed of architectural lines, monumental buildings, cathedrals, and churches, and that's when my painting began to refine, extracting colors and forms until reaching the minimal expression of my self found in my abstract geometric work. For over 8 years I have found my voice through the language of curves, lines and color.
Last year, one of my daughters became pregnant. I found myself reconnecting with the Miriam of 40 years ago, pregnant for the first time, dreaming of that world full of fantasies and illusions. All of a sudden, I felt the urge to paint those naïf landscapes full of magic again. I felt them within me. I brought them to life and reconnected them within my minimalist world, finding a dialogue between the two, and thus, this series was born - The Reunion.