Jose   Mota
DISPOSSESSION by Jose   Mota  Image:  "Dispossession" trace our collective journey through a densely populated landscape, where individuals navigate culture of competition for  recognition, spaces , societal status and much more. The piece reflects the tension between striving and surviving, taking space and  how the pressure to act first, claim a pleas not just physical space but also who we are, our cultural identity, religious beliefs, and or the moral values  we embody,  and assert presence often stems from a deeper fear of being left behind or stripped of something  (we) have or catheterize ourselves to be,  and  being dispossessed by another individual.  the  layers   forms and chaotic intersections, evoking  the contagious   inkling of urban life, as part of the series "Concentric spaces",  where  boundaries between ambition and alienation are the focal point of society and the invisible forces not just out of ambition, but out of a deeper fear of erasure.
The piece is  literal and metaphorical, the Chaotic intersections of two opposing colors occupying the same place but for much on separate groups, the red portraying the  majority of the individuals that inhabit a place and the yellow as the called the different one,  but on highlighting that almost every one is in the same place in the  map, mirroring  the psychological collisions we experience daily: ambition clashing with exhaustion, hope tangled with anxiety, connection fraying into  residue of urban existence, where the line between progress and dispossession is razor-thin.
I want this work to communicate not about silent competition we are in a crowded environment or the  organic displacement that happen as we become part of the it’s about the subtle ways we lose parts of , in the sves while trying to keep up, be seen, or stay relevant.
At its core, Dispossession asks: What do we sacrifice to belong? What do we risk to be visible? And how do we reclaim what’s been stripped away — not just from us individually, but from our shared humanity?
"Dispossession" trace our collective journey through a densely populated landscape, where individuals navigate culture of competition for recognition, spaces , societal status and much more. The piece reflects the tension between striving and surviving, taking space and how the pressure to act first, claim a pleas not just physical space but also who we are, our cultural identity, religious beliefs, and or the moral values we embody, and assert presence often stems from a deeper fear of being left behind or stripped of something (we) have or catheterize ourselves to be, and being dispossessed by another individual. the layers forms and chaotic intersections, evoking the contagious inkling of urban life, as part of the series "Concentric spaces", where boundaries between ambition and alienation are the focal point of society and the invisible forces not just out of ambition, but out of a deeper fear of erasure. The piece is literal and metaphorical, the Chaotic intersections of two opposing colors occupying the same place but for much on separate groups, the red portraying the majority of the individuals that inhabit a place and the yellow as the called the different one, but on highlighting that almost every one is in the same place in the map, mirroring the psychological collisions we experience daily: ambition clashing with exhaustion, hope tangled with anxiety, connection fraying into residue of urban existence, where the line between progress and dispossession is razor-thin. I want this work to communicate not about silent competition we are in a crowded environment or the organic displacement that happen as we become part of the it’s about the subtle ways we lose parts of , in the sves while trying to keep up, be seen, or stay relevant. At its core, Dispossession asks: What do we sacrifice to belong? What do we risk to be visible? And how do we reclaim what’s been stripped away — not just from us individually, but from our shared humanity?
  • Jose Mota
  • DISPOSSESSION, 2024
  • Mixed Media, oil, Crylic, image transfer on acrylic, acrylic markers, oil markers..
  • 60 x 48 x 1.25 in (152.4 x 121.92 x 3.18 cm)
  • $6,000
  • Available
  • Current Location: Long Island City, N.Y