DINA GONZALEZ MASCARO

I am a Mountain

I am a Mountain drawings strike a precarious balance between structure and collapse, with myriad pieces intricately entangled, both defying and depending upon gravity to hold together. In some works, open caves act as high refuges; in others, spaces are unfolded to reveal a mountain’s interior rooms. Others are tightly layered, but offer tiny spaces where one can enter. Throughout, light and dark interplay. "And if you try to take out one piece it seems like everything will fall… but there is a gravity that keeps it all together.”

I am a Mountain reflects a year that González Mascaró spent “inside the mountain”, where she navigated her own darkness and tight passages, as well as light and calm, and emerged with a changed perspective.
"I wanted to go inside the mountain using drawing as a meditation, simply to be and to endure that profound sadness,” she says. “And in that solitude I experienced what may be my greatest transformation.