The work of
Bayo (Eduardo Flores) is a Mexican visual artist and award-winning art director, born in Mexico City in 1976 and now based in Portland, Oregon. His work spans painting, illustration, and sculpture, exploring symbolic, often surreal imagery that reflects on fragility, psyche, and the quiet tension between humans and the natural world.
Breath explores the connection between humanity and the natural world. The whale, a creature whose life depends on the constant exchange between ocean and air, reflects the human presence below. Together, they suggest that beneath the surface of our differences lies a deeper connection that unites all living things—a reminder that we are not separate from nature, but part of the same cycle of breath, movement, and life.
On view at Archenemy Gallery
Breath
36×24 inches
Oil on Board, 2026
fragments
brings together a selection of works that feel like glimpses rather than conclusions—each piece holding onto something just before it slips away. In some works, human forms emerge and dissolve within layered space; in others, symbolic figures and natural elements overlap, creating quiet tension between presence and disappearance. A recurring thread runs through them: the sense that meaning is never fixed, but broken into parts that must be felt rather than fully understood.
