What Goes Around Comes Around
Title: What Goes Around Comes Around
Medium: Super-8, Photography, Artificial Intelligence, Acrylic on Canvas, Silkscreen, Augmented Reality, NFT
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 30 in x 40 in
Color Composition:
Yellow 71.9% · Olive 8.9% · Cream 6.5% · Light Green 5.7% · Green 3.6% · Raw Canvas 2.4% · White 1.1%
Tone: Mid Tone, lightness 30 out of 100 (0 is black, 100 is white)
Journal: February 3, 2024
Esteban met with me early in the morning before the flight to Rio, Brazil. Right when Santa Lucía Hill park opened we took a stroll inside. We walked and talked to get to know each other better. He too was a fellow photographer from the NFT space. There was a fountain we found and I noticed there was a San Pedro cactus growing above it. I asked if he knew what that cactus symbolized, and he responded, you mean Huachuma? Yes! We bonded over the sacred medicine and it was the first time I realized it was common outside of California and Peru. Chile too has rituals and practices for this sacred plant medicine. In that moment I decided to create Estabans portrait, with the cactus as a cameo, and playing around with framing with the steel circles that were the boundaries in the circular garden. He did not know what to do at first so I directed him to walk up to me and reach his hand out to grab the camera. It was the first time doing something like this in the project and had a really neat effect. Always try something new, and what goes around comes around, especially when your in a circular park!
- WhiteTrace
- YellowDominant
- Raw CanvasTrace
- CreamAccent
- OliveAccent
- GreenTrace
- Light GreenAccent
- ToneMid Tone
- TemperatureWarm
- PhysicalUnclaimed
- Exhibition FloorPresent