Monica Ceballos Brenninkmeijer. Born in Colombia (1970), studied Graphic Design in Taller Cinco, Bogota, Colombia, Art Workshops with David Manzur - Colombian Master. Courses: Introduction to making hand-made paper, University of Andes, Bogota, Colombia, + Underwater Photography, Isla san Andres, Colombia. Exhibitions in Pulse (New York), Dubai (UAE) & Cyprus For better or worse, much of the world we experience is dominated and controlled by humans. We spent most of our days in houses, cars & buildings, and inside these structures, we are in control. We manipulate our environment within the context of the human world, this is natural. We often carry this attitude with us into the world of nature. We forget as we enter the forest or sit on the beach, that we are moving into another realm, one that asks to drop our baggage & surrender to a different meaning. I love nature and its beauty, it will always participate in my work, I believe we take for granted how special and soothing it could be. In this work I abstract the naturalism of nature. Images come from all over the place it could be a magazine, a sticker, a book, or a drawing stencil that captures my eye. My canvas is a dance of elements. In a way you can say I control not only the clashing of the elements but the colors are in a dialogue rather than clashing. I want my celebration for nature to be something more permanent, that what are used nowadays, I want people to have a first look and know they will come back and look again and they will find something new, something that they didn't perceive the first time, nowadays we just flick through things and social media looking for more excitement, when the real excitement is actually there in Nature! “My work is not boring” is a work that although looks elemental and somehow simple, is planned all the way through its conception, every stroke, every element has a reason to exit