Artist: David Frias
Title: “Triptych ”
Medium: Ink on paper
Year: 2025
Triptych brings together three pen drawings: La Caída, Deep Down Inside, and El Peso del Aire. Though created independently, their collective presence reveals a symbolic and emotional sequence: descent, immersion, and the lingering impulse within stillness.
These works emerge from a persistent feeling —the loss of potential. Each bird depicted is not simply fallen, but suspended in a decision. Is it dead, or is it learning to fly? That question runs through the entire series. There is no definitive answer, only a constant tension between surrender and possibility.
La Caída, the first to be created, marks the origin of the gesture. Drawn in pen, it captures the rupture with minimal means and raw intimacy. It precedes the later painting of the same name, preserving a quieter, more vulnerable truth —the fall before interpretation, before symbol.
Deep Down Inside dives into what remains unspoken, into what sinks without form or name. El Peso del Aire reveals what lingers afterward: the defeated body, surrounded by the echo of its impulse, suspended between what was and what might still be.
The pen, as a medium, does not seek volume or spectacle. It seeks emotional precision. Each line trembles with doubt; each stroke is a silent affirmation. These works offer no answers or conclusions. They stand as witnesses to the creative process as a philosophical act —a search not for perfection, but for truth.
Triptych is not presented as a closed series, but as an opening —an invitation to observe thought before it becomes form. Birds that fall, yet retain the impulse. Potential lost, yet still capable of transformation.
Artist: David Frias
Title: “Triptych ”
Medium: Ink on paper
Year: 2025
Triptych brings together three pen drawings: La Caída, Deep Down Inside, and El Peso del Aire. Though created independently, their collective presence reveals a symbolic and emotional sequence: descent, immersion, and the lingering impulse within stillness.
These works emerge from a persistent feeling —the loss of potential. Each bird depicted is not simply fallen, but suspended in a decision. Is it dead, or is it learning to fly? That question runs through the entire series. There is no definitive answer, only a constant tension between surrender and possibility.
La Caída, the first to be created, marks the origin of the gesture. Drawn in pen, it captures the rupture with minimal means and raw intimacy. It precedes the later painting of the same name, preserving a quieter, more vulnerable truth —the fall before interpretation, before symbol.
Deep Down Inside dives into what remains unspoken, into what sinks without form or name. El Peso del Aire reveals what lingers afterward: the defeated body, surrounded by the echo of its impulse, suspended between what was and what might still be.
The pen, as a medium, does not seek volume or spectacle. It seeks emotional precision. Each line trembles with doubt; each stroke is a silent affirmation. These works offer no answers or conclusions. They stand as witnesses to the creative process as a philosophical act —a search not for perfection, but for truth.
Triptych is not presented as a closed series, but as an opening —an invitation to observe thought before it becomes form. Birds that fall, yet retain the impulse. Potential lost, yet still capable of transformation.
