A personal reflection on emptiness, light, and Edward Hopper’s “Sunlight in an Empty Room”. Art, sadness, and the quiet weight of being alive.

A short reflection on art, invisibility, and the uncomfortable truth behind the phrase “less is more.” Sometimes, in art and in life, less is simply less.

A reflection on Xul Solar’s visionary art, alchemy, hermetic thought and inner universes beyond trends, power and the art market. The alchemist.

An analysis of Franz von Stuck’s Circe and the dark beauty behind her seductive gaze. A reflection on desire, propaganda, and the modern poisoned cup. The cure.

A sharp reflection on Warhol, Pop Art, business, and the battlefield every artist must face. Strategy, survival, and creation collide in this week’s Ojolo Notes. The war and the hole.

A brief meditation on emptiness as a starting point, through architecture, sculpture, and the monumental spaces shaped by Eduardo Chillida.

Ojolo reflects on how love, like art, dances between illusion and truth. Inspired by Quinten Massys’ Ill-Matched Lovers, this piece questions when love is real, and if it ever truly is.

Füssli’s The Nightmare has long been seen as a vision of horror. But what if it was actually about pleasure — and society’s fear of it?

Beyond Halloween's commercial façade lies Mexico's profound Día de Muertos, a centuries-old tradition honoring death itself. Discover the true meaning behind La Catrina and why this ancestral celebration transcends life, as told through the eyes of someone who keeps the tradition alive: Death laughs at life

A reflection on dreams, solitude, and the eternal desire to rise above reality, inspired by Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.”

An introspective reflection on the thin line between madness and creation. Through the stormy brilliance of J.M.W. Turner, Ojolo questions the blindness of today’s art market, a world that often mistakes light for noise.

Celebrating presence in the digital realm. ojolo reflects on the inclusion of his work Mascarojo 25 in Harmony of Tension, a global virtual exhibition curated by Dominique D. Sahms. The piece examines the red mask as symbol and mirror, what we hide, what we unveil.

An homage and reinterpretation. ojolo fractures José Clemente Orozco’s vision of The Christ Destroying His Cross into digital radiance, where nuclear light meets divine gesture. A meditation on apocalypse, art, and rebirth through destruction.

This essay is a descent, not into despair, but into truth. ojolo explores the act of creative falling: letting go of safety, certainty, and recognition. The abyss becomes a site of revelation, where failure mutates into light.

A meditation on the immortality of art. ojolo imagines a spectral island where artists who vanished in silence still create beyond the material world. A reflection on legacy, anonymity, and the strange beauty of persistence after erasure.

Main image of ojolo’s artwork: composition of layered textures and semi-formed shapes, evoking absence, fragmented masks, and memory’s fissures — a visual exploration of being unseen and the poetics of erasure.

We don’t talk enough about this, because the algorithm doesn’t like the smell of failure.