La naissance de ‘Eagle’ 2012

Carlos Sablòn’s ‘La naissance de ‘Eagle’ is a scene bathed in earth tones and sky blue, rendered with the smoothness of oil paint. Imagine the artist carefully layering those pigments, building up this surreal landscape bit by bit. There's this strange, almost dreamlike quality, a baby curled up in a cracked egg next to a huge red and blue flower? Form? Object? The smoothness of the paint makes it feel like a memory or a myth, something half-remembered. I feel the precision of the brushstrokes and the way they give shape to the whole scene. It feels so personal. What did it feel like for Sablòn, painting this? That egg is like an idea incubating, and that red swoosh is the feeling of emergence! I love how painters borrow from each other, riffing on old ideas.