Islas y Mares ARTISTS_José Ortiz-Pagán the offset lithograph Prayer and

the offset lithograph Prayer and Struggle depicts a mother's handwritten prayer pleading for the safety of her son

My works are intricately constructed with detritus from my life

and illustrations from disparate sources and bringing them into conversation on a single surface

including the natural world

Islas y Mares ARTISTS_José Ortiz-Pagán the offset lithograph Prayer andFrom the Artist I have symbols in my work. The first, indeed, is the city as a container of joys, sorrows, longings of the human, the other is the pendulum, which is a symbol of timeand the other is the fruit of allegorical pleasure. Excerpted from https: www. picassomio. com jose omar torres. html, accessed 6 18 2021 Except for minor exceptions, all the work of Jos Omar Torres transits between the figurative and the abstract, with a certain