NATURAL MYSTIC
Natural Mystic functions as a threshold, into a working practice guided by intuition, by the impulse to surface themes and images that seemed to await their emergence into tangible media. In this project, Alquichire draws from the primal source, turning inward, probing the subconscious and pointing toward the hidden dimensions of personal and universal knowledge. The artworks  — including The Shadow into the Abyss, The Shining, The Mystery and the Wolves, Wild Horses, When the Blue Gods Whisper, and Visio Lux Vivens (Vision of the Living Light) — offer clues toward a perceptual transformation that gestures to another state of being: a world beyond everyday reality, where silence and pause prevail, where time flows differently, and where spaces fold and unfold like tunnels between connected universes. Viewers are drawn into an inner narrative and visual cosmos, encountering portals that open onto mystery, melancholy, and the oneiric — space-time collages of dualities and hybridizations, unfolding within a crepuscular dream from which one might awaken at any moment.

Referencing art-historical lineages — such as Russian Constructivism or Chronophotography — has been a defining modus operandi in earlier series, including Carbograma (2015) and 333 (2016). Natural Mystic arises from certain historical-artistic obsessions, such as Neoclassicism in the late 18th century, and Romanticism and Symbolism in the 19th. Elements drawn from this re-reading of the past create recognizable scenarios to which we might initially cling, only to discover visions strangely inserted into what once felt familiar. Alongside these references, the mystical poetry of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and San Juan de la Cruz (1542–1591) intertwines with formal explorations in a pursuit of spiritual depth through art. Ruined architecture, recurring mountain landscapes, and silent forests, together with geometric symbols and the pervasive blue that stains the unreality of the images, evoke cinematic associations. Each sequence is inhabited by beings who seem to move freely in and out of the scene: figures dissolving into the sublime scale of their surroundings, and power animals — the deer, the wolf, the horse — leaving an imprint of timelessness that reconnects us with both inner and outer nature. These characters appear on the verge of being consumed by the very fantasy they traverse, suspended in a final instant of stillness before something compels them to flee.

Alquichire’s practice gains particular resonance in a moment when art seeks to assert its urgency — to carry the artist’s consciousness and intention within a contemporaneity that often sells the illusion that nothing further need be made, that everything is already given : texts, images, and ideas are generated in the entrails of a ubiquitous digital beast.  In this project, we encounter the necessity of conjuring imaginaries bound to history, to literature, to territories and landscapes, and to all that shapes human experience — and with it, the capacity to tell stories that hold both spiritual and material essence.


Text by Caridad Botella

Caridad Botella Lorenzo (Madrid, 1977) holds a degree in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. She earned a Master’s in Museology from the Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam and a Master’s in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam. She is also a master embroiderer, trained at the Santo Domingo School of Arts and Crafts. Since 2012, she has lived in Bogotá, where she became the mother of two daughters, discovered a deep connection with nature, and developed a love for embroidery. She is the co-founder and curator of SINFONÍA TRÓPICO, a science–art platform with an educational focus on biodiversity loss, deforestation, and climate change in Colombia. She currently works as an independent curator, with a particular emphasis on textile art, nature, and the relationship between art and literature.






Sigriswil
Acrylic on linen
180x120cm
2025







When the Blue Gods Whisper
Acrylic on linen
130x100cm
2025







Umpalá
Acrylic on linen
180x120cm
2025






The Mystery and the Wolves
Acrylic on linen
50x70cm
2024

The Configuration of Reality
Acrylic on linen
50x70cm
2024

The Shining
Acrylic on linen
50x70cm
2024





"Visio Lux Vivens"
(Visión de la luz viviente) (Vision of the Living Light)
Acrylic on linen
130x100cm
2025





Sparks of the Living Light (Señales Luminosas)
Acrylic on linen
100x70cm
2025






The Garden of the Secret Arches (El Jardín de los Arcos Secretos)
Acrylic on linen
130x100cm
2025






The Shadow into the Abyss
Acrylic on linen
100x70cm
2024




El Misterio de la Noche
Acrylic on linen
100x70cm
2025







Reflections and Resonances
Acrylic on linen
45x40cm
2024

Memento Mori
Acrylic on linen
45x40cm
2024

The Deer
Acrylic on linen
45x40cm
2024

The Wolf
Acrylic on linen
45x40cm
2024





Echoes
Acrylic on linen
100x70cm
2024





Wild Horses
Acrylic on linen
130x100cm
2025





Lupus
Acrylic on linen
1300x1070cm
2025





Revelations
Acrylic on linen
100x70cm
2025






Cavilaciones
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025

Tenues Revelaciones
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025

La Luz Tranquila
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025

Rayos Fugaces
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025

Configuraciones en Resonancias Ciclicas
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025

Nightcall
Acrylic on linen
40x40cm
2025