The unique visual vocabulary that has become Carlos Amorales’s signature style stems from his Liquid Archive, a digital database containing hundreds of drawings generated by the artist and subsequently used and reused in his multifaceted body of work. Begun in 1999, this growing collection of images is the tool that unifies Amorales’s artistic oeuvre as its motifs migrate from medium to medium…
Useless Wonder is based on The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe and illustrates Carlos Amorales’ exploration of the language and meaning of fantasy and myth…