Sebastián Espejo

Jars With Cuttings and Flower Paintings

Jackson's Art Prize 2025
Oil, Oil Pastel
Panel
18 x 13 cm

“My work is centred around attention. I believe that painting is a powerful tool for cultivating awareness of our surroundings, helping us to detect the poetics within visual experience. From this perspective, I see painting as a surface that enables us to see more deeply, to contemplate, inhale, yearn, and spend time attending to visual experience. The languages of painting have always been an integral part of the history of visual understanding. In reading the history of painting, we read the history of the eye. In light of today’s attention economy, what can slow, process-driven, archaic images reveal about this phenomenon? And what can we actively do to regain some connection with our surroundings?”