Visual Artist
Mixed media on rolled canvas
94.5” x 61”
My work symbolically explores our deep connection to the Earth and its diverse organisms, using vibrant colors and abstract patterns to celebrate the planet’s beauty and wonder. The piece “Come Fly With Me” invites viewers to contemplate the paradox of consciousness. As we grow more aware of the natural world, we face the unsettling reality that deeper understanding does not necessarily bring us closer to knowing ourselves. Like nature’s intricate patterns, the mind is paradoxical: every truth seems refutable, and every falsehood can find validation. This reflects the self-sustaining illusions shaping our perception of reality, highlighting the complex interplay between awareness and the unknown. My work invites introspection and wonder, encouraging viewers to embrace the complexity and mystery of both the natural world and their own minds. It suggests that true understanding is less about certainty and more about appreciating the journey of discovery and the interplay of known and unknown.
"Come Fly With Me"
Una obra representando la biodiversidad cultural y ambiental en las diasporas latinas. Somos muchos los latinos que hemos tomado parte voluntaria o involuntaria de dejar nuestros paises en busca de mas seguridad personal y economica, en el mejoramiento de nuestras situaciones. En Estados Unidos, una de esas diasporas esta en el sur de la Florida y ha llegado al punto que el idioma predominante en esta region es el espanol.
Y tu? Formas parte de una diaspora?
36”x36”, Acrylic, Paint Marker and Pens on gallery stretched canvas
This work is an abstract coral reef—an imagined underwater cosmos where memory, biology, and emotion bloom in radiant, fragile layers. It is a portrait of life in constant negotiation: vibrant, vulnerable, and interdependent.
Corals, like the forms in this piece, are both individuals and collectives. They thrive in clusters, grow slowly, and build entire worlds over time—worlds that nourish and protect. In this painting, each shape, each saturated hue, functions as a living cell in a much larger organism. Together, they form a landscape that pulses with energy, complexity, and quiet urgency.
Emerging from a black void that suggests both ocean depth and the unconscious, these forms speak to the richness of what lies beneath visibility—ancestral knowledge, biological processes, unspoken emotions. They ask us to consider what is usually unseen or overlooked, and to listen to the wisdom held in our internal reefs.
This piece reflects not only my fascination with the aesthetics of marine life, but also my reverence for the delicate systems—both ecological and emotional—that sustain us. It invites the viewer to float, drift, and submerge into a realm where science meets spirit, and color becomes a language for survival.
48” x 48”, Acrylic, paint markers, pens on gallery wrapped canvas
Break silence
Break stigmas
Break paradigms
Break taboos
Break barriers
ROAR
Acrylic on Canvas. Framed and ready to hang. 16” x 20”
This is one of the first series of paintings I made back in 2012. This series is a collection of paintings about human connection, about spirituality and the mystical, about how humans are connected to the earth, the animals, and to each other.
“Prayer” is about what we believe brings us closer to that spirituality. Across all religions, prayer is used to invoke a spiritual connection with a supreme being. Prayer is symbolic for our human need to find strength in our hardships, to help us be resilient in a life full of pain and loss, and to have “faith” in the protection of those we love. Prayer helps us not feel alone in our struggles.
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-Andrea Facusse