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.

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

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.

Art isn’t a choice —it’s a calling that can drive you to the edge of madness. In “Between Madness and Art”, Ojolo reflects on the life of Martín Ramírez, a visionary who turned schizophrenia into a landscape of creation.

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.