Octavio Ocampo: Metamorphosis

Born in Mexico in 1943, educated at the Fine Art Institute, Mexico City and the San Francisco Art Institute, he has developed his own metamorphic style using a technique of superimposed image - figures and other details are carefully design within the paintings.

If you look at them closely, hidden images will emerge.


"I am fascinated by the forces of Good and Evil and the Sun (male) and the Moon (female). I live in Tepoztlan, which is a mountainous region southwest of Mexico City, and is considered to be one of the most magical places on earth. Like the Bermuda triangle, there is a strange and unexplained, but extremely powerful, confluence of magnetic forces seemingly concentrated in the Tepozteco Mountain."

His works are full of excellent symbolism; below a theme which we named the Forces of Life.

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