“In a way, the only reason to call my works landscapes is cultural: it’s simply that viewers automatically register my format as a landscape, although none of the images can be traced to a geographic location. It’s the idea of a landscape rather than a real place.”
Lucas Arruda
L ucas Arruda’s landscapes and seascapes are characterized by his close attention to light and space. Painted from memory, they achieve an abstract quality that is grounded in a horizon line, which offers a perception of distance. Part of a group of similar landscape pieces, the present work was created one month after his grandmother Ozana Arruda’s death, and is named after her to intentionally pay homage to her passing. Through his evocative and textured brushstrokes, Arruda successfully foregrounds the materiality of paint, evokes the sublime through his treatment of landscape, all while recalling the memory of his beloved grandmother.