En la Trayectoria del Tiempo 

Editor: This mixed-media drawing on paper is "En la Trayectoria del Tiempo" by Ramon Oviedo. There's a real sense of tension and mystery. It feels almost architectural, yet fragmented. What compositional elements strike you most when you look at this work? Curator: I'm immediately drawn to the interplay between the geometric forms and the more expressive, textural elements. Note how Oviedo employs line – not just as contour, but as a binding force. Are these lines trapping forms? Releasing them? Consider the work's structuralist reading—the visible system almost betrays a hidden underlying system we cannot see, the dark, central form at the piece's center—a keystone for our own act of perception. What about the colour, in its formal use? Editor: The colour palette, primarily these muted purples and pinks, creates a surprisingly serene backdrop for such an angular composition. That small spot of red truly pops! Is that dark, almost smudged, rectangle some kind of focal point? Curator: It commands attention, doesn’t it? Visually, it creates a void, a moment of concentrated darkness. However, if it dominates too much, all other formal elements risk subordination. The beauty is that the linear gestures attempt to break it down to balance the composition as a whole, to provide some semiotic meaning behind that black form at the center of it all. In some sense, its opacity challenges our desire for clarity and demands contemplation, doesn’t it? Editor: It really does. The whole drawing makes you consider how different elements can come together to produce anything but stability. I'm seeing the architecture analogy even stronger now! Curator: Exactly! Through astute manipulations of form, material and colour, Oviedo evokes this response perfectly. Its formal elements perform like a linguistic expression of time itself.