The 3 Suns

 Mónica Esgueva

Mixed Media
2021

This painting is inspired by a crop circle. The Sun, or Helios, is a symbol of God’s force, referring to the eternal powers or archetypal principles of Creation: the symbolic aspects that combine with all into The One.

Besides, 3 is a sacred number. Pythagoras postulated that the number 3 was considered as the perfect number, the number of harmony, wisdom and understanding. It is also the number of times: past, present, future; birth, life, death; beginning, middle, end. It is the number of the divine.

 Meditation —practiced for more than twenty years— allows me to achieve rich inspirational experiences and inner visions that I try to depict in my paintings. In my case, it is this listening to my own inner voice with such focused attention that contributes to expressing my

personal glimpses of the divine Imagination, embodying my own vision and simultaneously aiming at revealing a facet of the collective mind. My art is mostly derived from those visions I have while in a meditative or contemplative state of mind. My purpose is to transcend the physical world, inspiring the viewer to reach a higher ground and perceive the light that is within us all. As William Blake wrote, “If the doors of perception were cleansed then everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” I paint to express this beyond words, even beyond the visual senses. I paint vibrations that aspire to transcend the physical world. I create to expand the light, aligned to Robert Schumann’s perspective that “the artist’s vocation is to send light into the human heart”.

Website: monicaesguevaart.com

Instagram: @monicaesgueva.art

Having lived in London, Paris, Tanzania, and India, she is a Visionary artist now based in Madrid, Spain.

Her art career started as a child, so to speak. Her talent was innate, although later on she took courses at Paris École des Beaux Arts and studied with renowned painters in France. She started exhibiting her paintings when she was very young, and her artwork has been shown in exhibitions in the United States, Holland, Great Britain, France, Costa Rica, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

Her artwork is also in the following permanent collections: Rochester Museum of Fine Arts (NH, USA), Monaco Museum of Modern Art, LatinAmerican Art Museum (Florida, USA), Hewlett-Packard Foundation (France), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Zarzuela del Monte (Spain), and Museo Casa Orduña (Spain).