I am inspired by and use nature as a metaphor for life.  I take advantage of colors, shadows, gestures, contrasts and organic elements to create my works. They do not represent specific moments or places, but a reconstruction of memories.  These are influenced by my constant awareness of the effects of an interconnected world, my concern for the environment, as well as a childhood full of adventures in Costa Rica and other places I've lived in, visited or imagined.  
I work with oil, acrylic or other materials, to create works that exist at that point of tension between abstraction and figuration and light and darkness.  I want to explore complex mental states that seek to question and challenge the vulnerability and uncertainty of humanity in the face of our ephemeral existence and the relentless passage of time in this world.

Lillianne Ruiz Truque, January 2025