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“Pandemics are notorious for upending all of Either Ygartua is constantly in a dream-

society. Artists are notorious for creating their like state when he is awake, or he just has

art under the most perilous and inopportune a vivid imagination that he can tap into at

circumstances. Throughout history, art any time he chooses.

has continued to be created and consumed

during times of plagues and

global health crises. So art will

be created now.

Which begs the questions: what

sort of art has been created

during pandemics? And what

purpose does art serve during them? In Ygartua has simplified the dream-like state,

whatever form it takes, art will be created he says: “I do it while I am awake, that way,

during plagues. no problem recalling. I contemplate and try

to imagine different situations, unique ideas,

Ygartua transforms, diverts and reconstructs unusual creatures that could be working together

conventional reality to give us a new and with the virus, similar to that of the pilot fish

unique vision of the world. that assist the sharks in their close relationship

as the clean-up crew. I like to reveal the darker

The Dream: Often surrealism and fantasy side with a positive in the same painting. It is

art is explained by suggesting that the artist like a chess game, the game of life. The name of

under a spell of hypnosis can then self- the game is to win, to survive. The objective is

induce these lucid dreams as a source of to win, but the challenge is designing and then

artistic inspiration. The debate surrounding acting out a strategy to achieve that goal as in

the difficulty of transcribing a dream life, you must constantly evaluate and change

onto the canvas without the use of human your playing strategy. I approach this series

interpretation is ongoing amongst Surrealist with the objective to win the challenge is upon

scholars and artists. us, it will be faced and conquered.

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