Branch and seeds (COVID-19 series) 2021 acrylic on canvas, 24 x 12 inches. David Castillo Gallery
Branch and Seeds in many ways mirrors the germination of an idea—or an image, a language, a population, a virus—that builds over time, and how it takes root, grows, and becomes generative of others that extend from the original. The works in this exhibition play with notions of virality as a function of the spread of information within society, in an epidemiological sense relating to the spread of disease, and their conflation within the present as the concept of a virus spreads beyond its popular conceptions and takes on new, destabilized, and multifaceted meanings. Ultimately, Novoa imagines Branch and Seeds as a recursive exercise and tool that questions the propagation and transmission of information; how it spreads, by whom, and to what ends.