Victoria O'May Alves | Umbilical #2 (Pregnant with possibility), 2019
Digital
Media Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Image Dimensions: 42 x 60 cm
Edition of 9
Framed/unframed
Based in Spain's Basque Country, Victoria O'May Alves is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and designer focusing on mixed media, graphic design, and digital art. O'May has always been interested in how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and random circumstances, yet we are constantly improvising and choreographing our lives' paths with every decision we make. To her, these choices and events are tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape our lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this planet. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence. Through her artwork, she seeks to explore the interplay between these concepts of determinism and free will. Her process starts from unplanned points and evolves through emotional resonance and deliberate choices, informed by her background in design and art direction. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, an ongoing dialogue between artistic intuition and design principles. Motherhood is central to O'May's work, creating boundaries as well as a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. This influence shapes her choice of materials — she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar and domestic, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital media. These materials mirror the intimate environment in which both life and art unfold, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity. O'May's recent prints titled "Umbilical" are pieces from a series inspired by her experience of pregnancy and motherhood: 'Day by day, breath by breath, cell by cell, life is being created inside us. I believe this applies to all of us even once we are out of the womb and into this world, through our choices and our circumstances.'
Digital
Media Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Image Dimensions: 42 x 60 cm
Edition of 9
Framed/unframed
Based in Spain's Basque Country, Victoria O'May Alves is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and designer focusing on mixed media, graphic design, and digital art. O'May has always been interested in how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and random circumstances, yet we are constantly improvising and choreographing our lives' paths with every decision we make. To her, these choices and events are tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape our lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this planet. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence. Through her artwork, she seeks to explore the interplay between these concepts of determinism and free will. Her process starts from unplanned points and evolves through emotional resonance and deliberate choices, informed by her background in design and art direction. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, an ongoing dialogue between artistic intuition and design principles. Motherhood is central to O'May's work, creating boundaries as well as a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. This influence shapes her choice of materials — she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar and domestic, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital media. These materials mirror the intimate environment in which both life and art unfold, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity. O'May's recent prints titled "Umbilical" are pieces from a series inspired by her experience of pregnancy and motherhood: 'Day by day, breath by breath, cell by cell, life is being created inside us. I believe this applies to all of us even once we are out of the womb and into this world, through our choices and our circumstances.'
Digital
Media Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm
Image Dimensions: 42 x 60 cm
Edition of 9
Framed/unframed
Based in Spain's Basque Country, Victoria O'May Alves is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and designer focusing on mixed media, graphic design, and digital art. O'May has always been interested in how lives and identities are made up of a series of arbitrary events and random circumstances, yet we are constantly improvising and choreographing our lives' paths with every decision we make. To her, these choices and events are tiny dots that make up the lines that will ultimately shape our lives as individuals, as a society, and as beings on this planet. Everyone is inhabiting one of many possibilities of existence. Through her artwork, she seeks to explore the interplay between these concepts of determinism and free will. Her process starts from unplanned points and evolves through emotional resonance and deliberate choices, informed by her background in design and art direction. Each piece represents a crystallised set of decisions, an ongoing dialogue between artistic intuition and design principles. Motherhood is central to O'May's work, creating boundaries as well as a constant invitation to play and trust intuition. This influence shapes her choice of materials — she works with very few elements at a time, using materials that are familiar and domestic, such as paper, scraps, thread, ink, coloured pencils and digital media. These materials mirror the intimate environment in which both life and art unfold, lending themselves to meditative repetition and serendipity. O'May's recent prints titled "Umbilical" are pieces from a series inspired by her experience of pregnancy and motherhood: 'Day by day, breath by breath, cell by cell, life is being created inside us. I believe this applies to all of us even once we are out of the womb and into this world, through our choices and our circumstances.'
