ABOUT THE WORK

Notable for his body of work that employs mirrors as a way to incorporate the reflection of the viewer into the pictorial space, Arturo Sanchez Jr., On a clear day you can see eternity, takes a different strategy. This time, the artist extends reality into the figurative image by using fragments of glass that have been theoretically blown off from the window in the painting, conflating the worlds of the real and the imagined at the same time. These shards, rather than as free-floating agents, are bearers of images, possibly snippets of memory rushing towards the figures in the work. Composed of a woman (possibly a mother) and her three children, with one in foreground with its back entirely turned to the viewer, they seem to have been awaiting this encounter. Gesturing at the notion that we see our life in a flash when we die, On a clear day you can see eternity is an allegory of time and space, and our lives within it.