We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alma Ramirez. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alma below.

Alma, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you recount a story of an unexpected problem you’ve faced along the way?

I graduated from art school in 2008, and I was sure I loved art, I enjoyed painting but I was experiencing a major burned out. Being creatively blocked I stopped creating for a few years. I didn’t feel I had a voice in art or a particular style. I was trained in a very classical academy working on realism and the human figure. I enjoyed the process but it wasn’t me. I was searching for something that I could share with the world but nothing seemed meaningful at that time. I started working in different fields, searching for a “spark”, life got in the way and I seemed comfortable with my current reality but something was missing. I wasn’t painting. I did photography occasionally but that didn’t feel me. There is something with manipulation paint and a brush that makes me feel alive.
On one occasion when I first moved to Florida, I was taking pictures of the ocean when a wave came out of nowhere and made me drop the camera in the water. It wasn’t the nicest camera but It was my only camera back then.
I rushed home and tried to see if the memory stick was still good. Well, It wasn’t, It gave me that picture of the beach but pixelated. I was staring at the screen for quite a bit, admiring the brokenness of that photograph.
I would guess at this point people may delete all these broken images because they weren’t “normal”
I found so much beauty at that moment, thinking that how technology imitated the same thing in a body of work. captured a moment like this abstractly. I wanted to imitate the same way in a body of work, with handmade pixels. Portraying the beauty in the brokenness of an image.
This style is becoming my voice more and more. I love sharing the serenity and vibrancy of my surroundings by braking up into geometric cubes or pixels the beautiful vision I encounter that day by the water.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was born and raised in Mexico, In the desert. I came from a family of Chemist, my parents and sisters are into Science. I believe to be the only one into arts, however my parents where always supportive of me persuading this field. When I first moved to Florida, the water was very inspiring to my work. I found a sense of calmness and peaceful feelings portraying the colors around me. I was creating a visual diary of my daily afternoon walks. Over time I still find my self inspired by the scenery around me. I am drawn to the serenity of the moment and trying to portray the poetry of the colors that I find all around.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

The lesson I have learned is keep trying to find your voice, the search will never end but the journey is very enjoyable, Finding beauty on the brokenness of an image has led me to find beauty on my own personal journey. Life will present you many opportunities that can be challenging or perhaps hard to accept, at times we can feel broken in spirit but if we surrender and accept that that may be only the end of a chapter of a very good book and something new is about to begin.
This help me have a new vision of the difficulties in my own life.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Being an artist is very rewarding indeed. We are fortune to create new worlds, new visions and share them with the world. We are able to imitate nature, to transmit or awake feelings.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.Alma-Ramirez.com
• Instagram: AlmaRamirez.Art
• Facebook: AlmaRamirezFineArt
• Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/almaramirezart

Image Credits
Photography: Cole Locurto