“Palabra Oculta” is a series of acrylic paintings on raw, unprimed canvas that I created during the COVID-19 quarantine. It emerged from that strange, suspended time, blending the books I was reading, the films I watched, and the music playing in the background as I painted.

The raw canvas, without primer, has a spontaneous and slightly rough feel—much like those days: unpolished, yet full of ideas. The works are like visual notes, with words peeking through, stains that linger, and layers of paint that reveal fragments of what was on my mind during that confinement.

It’s not just a record of what I lived through, but also of how painting became a way to organize (or disorganize) everything. In the end, the “hidden” in the title speaks to that—to what remains between the lines, to what the painting says without speaking clearly.