yamila velazquez - Shadow Spirits

About the work:
The piece being presented is part of a limited edition of 5 units worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, guaranteeing exclusivity and authenticity. On the back, all pertinent data about the work, numbering and signature are included.
Total dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality professional 100% cotton canvas, maximum resistance to handling and external agents from the Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, Satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with visual quality.
Technique: Giclée print, renowned for its precision and lasting quality.

Certificate of authenticity:
If the buyer desires, the artist can provide a certificate of authenticity. This must be requested explicitly at the time of purchase.

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools, currently living and working in Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to selling, representing, and developing artists and artworks, Velázquez combines her business vision with a deep artistic sensibility.
This young Cuban talent has established herself in the field of digital art, using contemporary media to explore themes related to nature, landscape, and the intimate relationship between woman and her environment. Her works subtly and powerfully address topics such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, always framed in enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez manages to fuse classical influences with a modern language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The pictorial texture of her images, masterful use of color, and emotionally balanced composition position her work as a current artistic proposal of high aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The artwork will be carefully packaged by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, internally protected with bubble wrap to ensure its integrity during transport. Shipments are made through reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
Estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, though it may vary depending on the destination country.

The work depicts a stylized black panther in black, white, and gold tones, on a background with symbols of African tribal aesthetics.

This series offers a powerful and contemporary representation of one of the oldest and most revered symbols of African culture: the panther. With precise digital technique and a palette dominated by deep black and gold accents, the works manage to capture the strength, mystery, and majesty of the totemic animal, while framing it in a visual context rooted in ancestral origins.
The background, composed of tribal patterns inspired by African symbolic languages, acts as a spiritual echo that envelops the panther: solar signs, life spirals, protective eyes, sacred geometries. These signs are not merely decorative; they convey a sense of cultural continuity, ancestral memory, and connection to the sacred.

The panther, with a hypnotic, intense gaze, becomes the beating heart of each image. Its fur, speckled with spots that resemble tiny golden universes, reinforces its mythical status: it is a guardian, a spirit, a symbol of invisibility, agility, strength, and protection.
From a plastic viewpoint, the combination of the panther’s detailed realism with the symbolic abstraction of the backgrounds achieves an exquisite balance between naturalistic representation and ritual abstraction.
The choice of gold not only adds aesthetic sophistication but also reinforces the spiritual and divine dimension historically attributed to this animal in various African cultures.

This series is not merely a celebration of wild nature: it is an invocation of Africa’s ancestral spirit, a tribute to the hidden strength in the shadows, to the beauty that watches in silence from the thick memory. In the heart of absolute black, ancient constellations shine.
A panther emerges from the shadow, its golden gaze piercing the fabric of time. Behind it, primordial signs — drawings of suns, spirals, vigilant eyes — whisper the forgotten language of the ancestors.
She is a guardian and a messenger: the one who walks between worlds, the one who protects the secrets of the jungle, the one who breathes to the rhythm of the Earth.

Each spot on her coat is a symbol. Each golden vibration is an echo of lost wisdom.
This is not just an image of power: it is a mirror of our deepest instinct, of our eternal need to remember where we come from.