Havanalandia is a series of oil on wood (approximate size 12″ x 8″) made using a naïve style, where Havana presents itself simple and ingenue, with makeup and for sale, like a postcard (thus the small size of the paintings).
The scenery of the city, where its inhabitants look like ants and outside their script, continue their open and improper behavior, unaware of being observed. I chose the naïve, style as the most coherent vehicle to convey the ingenuity of the color trying to cover the opaque and obscure reality. Starting as an anthropological experiment, this series ends up being part of my Fine Arts thesis degree from I.S.A.
Surprisingly I found out that almost it its totality, the spectator identified this paintings as the real Havana, and what started as an irony, became the materialization of what people’s minds wanted to see and at the end what they perceived as existing.