| Misael was born in Puerto Rico but moved to Florida after only 2 years and has been shaped primarily by American cultural, ideological, and artistic influences. He notes that these influences have made him more aware and accepting of what is new or “different.” As a future art historian, he is also very much aware of his past. In fact his artwork often attempts to meld new and old ideas. Misael is now attending FAU, where he is pursuing a degree in Art History. After his studies, he plans to one day become a curator in a museum and/or an Art History professor.
All of the pieces displayed here were class projects, and for Misael, most of them were purely exercises and focus on a particular aesthetic goal. Besides the photo-piece “Dark and Right”, only the two drawings of his hands have significant personal meaning. The two of them form a diptic, with the two titles (“Wake Up” and “the Power’s Out”) forming one sentence. Both titles were inspired by two songs with the same titles by the band The Arcade Fire. For Misael, the two pieces represent everyone’s struggle, in one way or another, to stop the passage of time and hold on to the past. He describes how “time passes from left to right in the drawings; as we grow older we generally grow colder and lose our innocence and unabashed sense of love, represented by the heart with the lighted fuse.”
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Misael Soto |
