The lucky canary that exhales a scroll of possible futures
The masked raven plays the organ and with it marks the memory in time
The main character helps the spider patiently weave its web through which it falls in the sunset
I hope you like this painting, many more are on the way, same technique and with many symbolisms and metaphors that are reflections of my experiences, spiritual dreams, reflection of my life misadventures, but with a touch of hope.

The idea came to me from a dream in which fragments of other dreams that I had many years ago appeared. I have the belief that dreams are very symbolic and always represent things that are happening or are about to happen, so what was strange for me in this case was the fact that they are very old dream images, why are they back? Are things cyclical? Or am I just recycling dreams?
I use in this illustration my favorite technique which is watercolor, with muted colors, as I perceive things in my dreams

This illustration especially I developed it from several sketches that I had on the same concept, I did not have a very clear idea of ​​how to integrate so many elements in a single composition, so I went sketching in parts, that helped me in the end to have a single piece with multiple symbolism but around a single idea. It can be said that this illustration is made up of pieces of different sketches but a single message.

People have liked it for being very enigmatic and with messages that they turn dark, although the truth was not my intention that this work was considered as a macabre concept, it is rather the idea of ​​Deja-Vu and the cycle that the one that it seems that we are perennially trapped in a life of monotony, where every day we do the same thing, we see the same thing, and we even feel the same thing, however in Spain there is the belief that it is if we see a spider descending its thread at sunset portends positive changes.

I hope you like this painting, many more are on the way, same technique and with many symbolisms and metaphors that are reflections of my experiences, spiritual dreams, reflection of my life misadventures, but with a touch of hope.

Manolo González-Zavala

Illustrator and editorial designer, with over 20 years of professional experience as well as teaching career in graphic design and illustration in different universities.
Passionate about illustration, he has mainly developed the technique of watercolor as a particular form of expression, with which he manifests a position in certain situations of life, dreams and nightmares.
Other techniques that he frequently uses are digital, ink and marker.

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