Reseña artística por la revista digital 200 R ONE
Liza Alas
Liza Alas is the fifth artist to join us from El Salvador, which makes that country the second biggest contributor to 200 R ONE, after the US of A. And that while the country only has a population of just over six million! Have we just been lucky with contributions from there, or is the whole country artistically inclined? Is this perhaps in part a response to the violence that has racked that country for the last few decades? Does art maybe offer a way to cope with growing up in a country that has one of the highest murder rates in the world? A friend from there told me, “Growing up always feeling unsafe affects you. It changes you. But you don’t understand how much until you go somewhere safer. Only when the weight goes do you realize you’ve been carrying it with you all this time, like a backpack.”
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So how could that not affect your art? And yet, though Liza’s could have been dark, morose and depressing, it instead has a certain irreverence to it. Yes, we notice the undertones of violence, depression and rejection, but she also thumbs her nose at convention. And that gives us at 200 R ONE hope, for as Salman Rushdie said, “Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”
And El Salvador could really use some original perspectives and new ideas, for the ones that have been tried so far haven’t helped much. So it’s good to know that there are those in the new generation who are cultivating the very skills and talents that are necessary to express them. “The cages are not for my mind,” saysLiza Alas. We applaud that, for no mind should be caged. We hope that you help your country break out of their cage of violence and help us break out of cages of convention. Thank you for sharing your fantastical art with us Liza Alas and welcome to200 R ONE!
Liza Alas Posada 