Carlos Arriaga - London Is Watching You

Digital painting on transmuted photography.
The skies I depict have an almost unreal appearance; they are not merely aesthetic choices, but metaphors for the state of our environment and the consequences of human intervention. Each work aims to invite reflection, to question our impact, and to imagine where we are headed if we do not regain the balance that has been lost.
This set of works contemplates the fragile relationship between humanity and nature. Through powerful, high-contrast images, I seek to capture a world where the atmosphere seems altered, unsettling, and transmuted.

The London Eye in a photograph of great technical complexity and with a dramatic formal transformation due to light and color.
A novel photograph in which the mute is shown transformed and, in a way, reversed. The lights become shadows, the shadows become lights, the colors transform into their complementary hues, and magic arises. It is a transmuted photograph with the positive inverted, becoming what was formerly called a negative, as in silver halide films but much improved with a great deal of digital painting work.
These views of cities are the magical result of extensive intellectual and manual work with the computer. A recognizable urban landscape but totally transformed through light and color. A unique technique in the world, as far as I know.

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