Bernardo Diaz

Artist Statement

I manipulate words and images through a process of revision, omission, and embellishment. This process migrates from paper to pixels and back to paper. Most images and words belong to me but some are borrowed.

This scavenging, cutting, layering, overlapping, rearranging, decorating, and merging, entail a process of making formal sense of seemingly unrelated parts. In turn, this results in a lineage of glyph-like assemblages.

Unlike glyphs, these new arrangements don’t need to be deciphered. These aren't puzzles or riddles. Instead, these compositions seek to redirect; to obscure the origin of its parts; to achieve a sense of completeness from a state of fragmentation.