Maquinas Humanas

Human Machines

Talented artist Nercido Beltre delivers a haunting oil on canvas painting. Bathed in blue shadows, a young man with his mouth zipped shut stares blankly into the distance. Shadowy humanoid figures emerge from a doorway, running over a field of tormented faces, racing towards a series of mechanical gears. A lone figure perched atop one of the gears reaches a hand out to the group. Another figure is running towards the edge of a much higher door, holding a screaming face in his hands. The blue overtones lend an eerie feel to the painting. The frantic figures contrasted against the relative calm of the silenced young man evoke feelings of mental anguish, of inward turmoil and forced outward calm.