Paulina Padilla

Cacao

This was a commission for a holistic centre (GONG.MX) that I attended during the last year of the pandemic. My favorite therapy was their signature cacao ceremony accompanied by an hour-long gong sound-healing meditation.

“This painting explores the sheltering spaces incorporated in our everyday which might be physical, emotional, or digital, in the current fast paced and over-stimuling experience of the present. Our hightened sensorial intake feels synthetic when the expressions of the self disengage the body. ”