yamila velazquez - Shadow Spirits

About the artwork:
The piece presented is part of a limited edition of 5 worldwide, digitally produced and hand-signed by the artist. Each print is unique within its series, guaranteeing its exclusivity and authenticity. All relevant details about the artwork, its edition number, and the artist’s signature are included on the back.
Overall dimensions: 100 x 65 cm
Material: High-quality, 100% cotton professional canvas with maximum resistance to handling and external elements, Eco Canvas Roma Glossy, satin finish. We guarantee a durable product with excellent visual quality.
Technique: Giclée printing, recognized for its precision and lasting quality.

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

About the artist:
Yamila Velázquez (Las Tunas, Cuba, 1993) is a contemporary artist who uses digital intelligence tools. She currently lives and works in the city of Alicante, Spain. Owner and partner of a company dedicated to the sale, representation, and development of artists and works of art, Velázquez combines her business acumen with a profound 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 women and their surroundings. Her works subtly yet powerfully address themes such as beauty, love, sensuality, and feminine delicacy, set against enveloping, romantic, and refined atmospheres.
With a vibrant and expressive aesthetic, Yamila Velázquez fuses classical influences with a modern visual language, resulting in versatile, fresh, and deeply evocative works. The painterly texture of her images, her masterful use of color, and her emotionally balanced compositions position her work as a contemporary artistic offering of great aesthetic value.

Shipping and presentation:
The artwork will be carefully packed by a professional and shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, with internal bubble-wrap protection to ensure it remains intact during transit. Shipments are handled by reliable courier companies such as UPS, FedEx, or Correos España, depending on the destination and the most convenient option in each case.
The estimated delivery time is 7 to 10 days, although this may vary depending on the destination country.

The artwork depicts a stylized black panther in black, white, and gold tones, against backgrounds featuring symbols with an African tribal aesthetic.

This series offers a powerful, contemporary representation of one of the oldest and most revered symbols in African culture: the panther. Through precise digital technique and a palette dominated by deep black and golden glimmers, the works capture the strength, mystery, and majesty of this totemic animal, while placing it within a visual context rooted in ancestral traditions.

The background, composed of tribal patterns inspired by African symbolic languages, acts as a spiritual echo enveloping the panther: solar signs, spirals of life, protective eyes, sacred geometries. These symbols are not merely decorative; they convey a sense of cultural continuity, ancestral memory, and connection with the sacred.

With its hypnotic, intense gaze, the panther becomes the beating heart of each image.
Its coat, speckled with spots that resemble tiny golden universes, reinforces its mythical nature: it is a guardian, a spirit, a symbol of invisibility, agility, strength, and protection.

Artistically, the combination of the panther’s detailed realism and the symbolic abstraction of the backgrounds achieves an exquisite balance between naturalistic representation and ritual abstraction.
The choice of gold not only lends aesthetic sophistication, but also reinforces the spiritual and divine dimension historically attributed to this animal in various African cultures.

This series is more than a celebration of the wild: it is an invocation of Africa’s ancestral spirit, a tribute to the strength hidden in shadow, to the beauty that watches silently from the depths of our collective memory. In the heart of absolute black, ancient constellations shine.
A panther emerges from the shadows, its golden gaze piercing the fabric of time. Behind it, primordial signs—drawings of suns, spirals, watchful eyes—whisper the forgotten language of the ancestors.
She is guardian and messenger: the one who walks between worlds, the one who protects the secrets of the jungle, the one who breathes in rhythm with the Earth.

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