Lot 32404

Lorena Gaytan

In Search of Your Footprints

Medium

Aceite sobre lienzo

Dimensions

70 x 110 cm.

Framing

Unframed · Custom framing on request

Description

Lorena Gaytan

Oil on canvas

70 x 110 cm.

2017

 

This profound landscape painting, imbued with a narrative and nostalgic character, captures a country man seen from behind, dressed in a straw hat and carrying a satchel, as he walks along the edge of a dirt road. His posture suggests a slow, contemplative journey, an intimate passage that blends into the vastness of the surroundings. The scene is set on a rural road flanked by a rustic post-and-wire fence and a small stream in the foreground, which reflects the sky and refreshes the dense surrounding vegetation.

The true emotional protagonist of the piece is the light: an intense and imposing sunbeam filters forcefully through the foliage of a central tree, casting long, diagonal shadows across the beaten earth and lending the moment an almost mystical or revelatory atmosphere. In the background, the majesty of the sunlit green hills and distant mountains, fading into bluish tones and haze beneath a partially clear sky, accentuates the immensity of the walker's journey. It is a poignant allegory of reconnecting with the past, memory, roots, and the silent dialogue between human beings and the land they inhabit.