Carlos Arriaga - Pink Manhattan

Digital painting on photographed transmuted. (Inverted from positive to negative)
The skies I depict with an almost unreal aspect are not simply aesthetic choices; they are metaphors for the state of our environment and for the consequences that human intervention has caused. Each work aims to invite reflection, to question our impact and to imagine where we are headed if we do not recover the balance lost.
This set of works reflects on the fragile relationship between humanity and nature. Through powerful, high-contrast images, I seek to capture a world where the atmosphere seems altered, unsettled, and transmuted.

Urban scene of Downtown from Manhattan Bridge. NY.
A novel photograph in which the mute is shown transformed and somehow inverted. The lights become shadows, the shadows the lights, colors transform into their complements and magic arises. It is a transmuted photograph with the positive inverted that becomes what used to be called negative, as in silver halide films but greatly enhanced with a lot of digital painting work.
These city views are the magical result of extensive research and both intellectual and manual work with the computer. Recognizable urban landscape but totally transformed by means of light and color. A unique technique in the world, as far as I know.

Artwork around the world, in order of number of paintings and photographs:
Spain, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Austria, Belgium, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Mexico, Luxembourg, Romania, Australia.