Paisaje Bunti 1916

Xul Solar made this landscape, Paisaje Bunti, with watercolor, and wow, does it have its own kind of otherworldly pull. Those ochre hills rising in the background – they feel so solid, but then the road that cuts through, it’s like a path in a dream, am I right? I can imagine Solar, brush in hand, coaxing those shapes into existence, one careful wash at a time. What's in the mind of the creator? Are they seeing the familiar as strange, or making the strange feel like home? And the figures... those little souls wandering through? The textures and subtle shifts in the paint create a mood that’s both inviting and unsettling. It makes me think of Giorgio de Chirico, but with a warmer heart. Ultimately, it speaks to how we're all just making our way through, in our own style, trying to find our place in the landscape, real or imagined.