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Untitled signed (in purple impasto, left) and dated (in purple impasto, right) 2014 oil on canvas 35 1/4" x 29 1/2" (90 cm x 75 cm) Departing radically from traditional norms, Jigger Cruz's untitled piece features a heavily textured image composed of thick, extruded lines of paint arranged into a rough pyramidal form, deliberately hinting at the artwork's intention to present not a fixed image but an amalgamation of colors, gestures, and actions. With the painting's most striking feature being its materiality, using globs of paint that resemble ropes, stacked horizontally across the canvas, basically creating a thick paint mass tapering toward the top, with the colors of blue, green, yellow, red, and pink chaotically interwomen than harmonized, Jigger Cruz had successfully created an abstracted image that represents an individual—not the physical appearance that are easily seen with the eyes but the internal journey that makes up a person. A constant process that would last a lifetime. Each paint layer can be seen as a layer of one’s selfhood— their own memories, influences, mistakes, and corrections— all stacked on top of one another, building identity as a constructed, unresolved mess, but uniquely theirs. By redefining self-journey and identity as an abstracted physical record of being rather than a visual mirror, Jigger Cruz—through his masterpiece— has successfully challenged the idea that the true self is easily seen, revealed, or reinterpreted. (Mark John Castañeda)