Arnold Romero

Every day humans go through a series of never-ending and constantly changing emotions, feelings, and experiences. As the world around us is constantly undergoing change, this reflects and responds to our own state of flux. My art, simply yet ambiguously, depicts this universal personal condition. Revolving around my own inner struggles produced by a well established inferiority complex developed over the years, my paintings depict thoughts such as those that are self defeating as well as the depression I am drowning in brought upon by a series of constant failures in life. But within that pool of misery and desperation there appears to be a glimpse of constant resilience, hope, and determination. By joining these conflicting sides works full of love, faith, kindness, beauty, pain, misery, rage, and hopelessness have become the outcome. Works that range from quirky and satirical in their comical mockery of the negativity of life and works that are repugnant and obscene in their portrayal of hopeless despair and fear. My dark, yet at times light art strives to mix both radiating euphoria with obscure mysteriousness essentially to show that the two can interact and demonstrate a sense of adoration and love for one another. The sense of mockery as it is portrayed may be difficult for others to decipher as my art is made primarily as a form of releasing my inner madness and joy and is not directly intended to depict any sort of public message. However, it is by all means perfectly acceptable if others choose to interpret my art in another way; offensive, provocative, peculiar, joyful, or sad, my work is intended to show the inner most part of me in a sadistically leisure form.