Mexico City–based artist Othiana Roffiel (SCAD B.F.A., painting, 2012) presents luminous paintings exploring the interconnectedness of the human body and the cosmos. Rather than relying on direct references, Roffiel allows her mind–body connection to guide the work. Forms emerge from subconscious memory and imagination, creating a visual language that is both playful and profound. The works’ surfaces vary like terrain on a map: brushstrokes glint with oil, as choppy as sea currents, while other areas are raw and chalky, with the pigment’s grit leveled like topsoil. These horizonless compositions evoke epic and intimate views. Floating forms, reminiscent of moons or limbs, are surrounded by stippling marks recalling sand, raindrops, or stars, while soft gradients suggest transitions, whether cellular or planetary in scale.

Roffiel’s paintings bear witness to the spectacle of nature, capturing both its vastness and the intimate impression it leaves on the individual. By embracing the abstract and symbolic, Roffiel channels ambiguity as a generative force, inviting viewers to freely associate. Her paintings bridge landscape and self, transforming the act of looking into a meditation on moments we hold close and images that linger in our minds.