Maria Rendón

Lost + Found

2021-2022

After March of 2020, all I could think of was how much I had gained, a deeper awareness of my surroundings, a deeper love of nature; and I pledged to be more mindful about how I lived my life.

For months I thought I was as centered as ever until the beginning of December of that year, when loss manifested itself physically. My head, my eyes, my body went into a downward spiral. The ground underneath me was taken away. Vertigo.

Days, weeks, months passed for me to gain back my center. My focus on painting, along with breathing and imagining; gave me the strength to continue to dream and to become. 

My paintings are imagined. They are inspired by places I’ve been, images I’ve seen, and stories I’ve read and dreamed. 

With my deliberate marks and the unexpected and generous behavior of water and paint, my desire is to make paintings that resemble nature’s forms, its mystery, its precariousness and its resilience. 

I don’t paint things the way they are but the way I remember them. I want my paintings to be a memoir of what I see and what I experience.