San­ti­ago Sal­vador has cre­ated some paint­ings that I really enjoy!

His paint­ings have all the ingre­di­ents, but aren’t mixed together. Things exist beside each other, but don’t nec­es­sar­ily inter­act the way you’d expect them to. It chal­lenges the amount of depth that each piece has, despite the moun­tains that are present in many of his paint­ings.

Look­ing at Santiago’s paint­ings, I get the feel­ing that every­thing mat­ters, and noth­ing at the same time. Aside from the land­scape, the fig­ures and objects dot his paint­ings and feel small. At the same time, their lack of space and depth puts every­thing on the visual hierarchy.

All images via his Flickr.