Benares (The last photograph) 2013 graphite on marble, 12 x 24 inches. Private collection, Coral Gables
“In Benares (The last photograph) (2013), Novoa offers a surrealistic vision of this sacred Indian city in decay. The present-day imagen of the city, with its cupulas and river front steps, is powerfully defamiliarized. Buildings sink into a drying riverbed while blob-like towers from some Gaudí nigtmare loom in the background.” -Rudi Kraeher
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas (catalog), UCR ARTSBLOCK, Riverside, California 2016