A few weeks ago creating translucency in the skies of my Ciclos series, Blooms of Mold on view now at the @brooklynmuseum This new body of large-scale paintings, was inspired by what the art historian Simon Schama, in describing the art of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, once called “blooms of mold,” which one encounters on decaying urban and natural landscapes. In these compositions, I am layering and scraping paint to obscure, reveal, and abstract both text and narrative into landscapes with textured gestural skies woven with a unique code of writing to reveal a new horizon with a universal line. The abstracted text visually resembles underground mycelium formations, a complex and mysterious fungi communication network which references the interconnection between everything on land through a web of life. Five new paintings on view are part of the group exhibition Brooklyn Abstraction by curator Catherine Futter featuring Leon Polk Smith, Kennedy Yanko, and Maya Hayuk. Video @reyparlastudio