Did you watch your Lost like a good little reader? Well, good then. From the depths of dreams, imagination and creativity lies the artist named Souther Salazar. Familiar with a variety of techniques and materials, Salazar has created a fairytale world, where nothing is off limits and everything is breezy, beautiful and untamed. Thus far, his work has been unveiled in Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo. With his go-with-the-flow attitude, Salazar has created fantastic illustrations, sculptures, and installations that have captured a throng of people’s curiosities and kept them glued to his visual stories, wondering what is next to come.
Regarding his preference to draw animals instead of people, he states: “there’s more room for invention with animals. I feel like I can just have fun and make things up without referencing anything and it can still be true to the strange variety of the animal world. But ultimately I think animals, humans, buildings, plants… they don’t necessarily represent themselves. They are all just things that come out of my mind so they’re me and my imagination and my memories of people and places, all mixed up and regurgitated. A cat could be a girl, a hill could be an old man, a rock could be my house.”
