ThoughtS Part 1: Pensamientos Parte 1 - Paperback

by Jasser Jesse Membreno (Author)

This is part 1 to the 3 part series of Thoughts/Pesamientos V1. We are surrounded by images in our daily life as never before. In Jasser Membreno's beautiful book, ThoughtS, he relieves our saturation from the dense mundane and lifts us into the heights of human imagination, on a masterful flight to the world of his unique imagery and abstract poetry. It is a journey through his surrealistic narrative without a narrative of fantastical creatures--reawakening our imagination from the over-exposed visual landscape of our bit-filled times to the thrilling recollection of the reality and absurdity of our dream worlds. He reminds us of the vastness of the human mind. Just like the delightful young wayfarer of the story, on entering this universe you will often find yourself in two places at once, and equally as often, in two languages at once. Translated from English into Spanish, laid side by side, Gloria Alvarez has kept the keen sonic sensibility present in Membreno's pointed poetry, at times coy, at times absurd. The ingenuity in text as well as imagery reveals his deft poetic hand. Throughout the sensual pleasure of its strange images and jarring mysterious texts, it asks the same questions we have always asked...the exploration; coming-of-age, existential, whimsical, overwrought...We need it.

Author Biography

With an incredible facility for drawing and painting; he creates a moment; in world of his own devising. His work is figurative and fantastically; the landscapes, buildings and objects live simultaneously in the past present and future, of a world full of decay, mystery and invention. Within that scene, you will often find a figure; vaguely human, certainly emotional. His boundless imagination makes it inevitable that one medium can't contain his prolific output, and takes him across many borders: his drawing and paintings extend their narrative qualities into actual prose and poems he writes, into writing and animating his own films and his sculpture works extend his vocabulary into the real world. The one-man and group shows of his work have made him a sought-out talent for commissions and cross-overs into the entertainment industry.