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Ernesto Trujillo
Me Inside of You Inside of Me 3: Series Morphine Memories
Mixed Media, Monotype, Embossing, Drawing
22" x 30"
Me Inside of you, Inside of Me #3 explores the insight of being forced into a dream state
through necessity and how those dreams integrated into unresolved realities of the past and present.
Almost two years after my father passed away, I was injured in an accident and
was being treated in the emergency room at a local hospital in my hometown.
During this stay I was treated with pain medications that assisted in my convalescing.
The artwork takes on different compiled images and memories of my father
from his youth to selected personal moments in our relationship;
that emerged during periods of twilight when I would briefly awaken and see my surroundings and drift back into sleep.
The passing of my father two years prior to this event was now at the forefront of mind.
Conversations of my condition, along with bits and pieces of physicians conferring with my mother
began meshing with this past, present and future.
This artwork from the series "Morphine Memories" was significantly important to me
because of the disconnection that I had with his memory.
Before and after my fathers death, and to this day I have not had one dream about my father.
It was unfortunate that this accident fell upon me; I still suffer from its effects today.
However I was granted the privileged of a small window of part of who I am today, my father's son.
Me Inside of you, Inside of Me #3 is gift of the oddest gifts. It was paid for through a traumatizing event.
The image itself was assembled with a variety of heavy embossment, printing, drawing and violent mark making.
In the end as I stop and reflect about it now, a gift is still a gift no matter how painful it might be.
