Monica Ramos

My contribution to Oh Comely Magazine’s feature on artists and their pet peeves. It’s in issue fifteen, which is out this April! Many thanks to the Illustration Editor, Laura Callaghan.

client: personal work

An orange based world for the Review section Client: Pulp Magazine

Stackable wooden toys created to make sex and sexuality cuter and more approachable. 11 different characters, 9 singles and 2 conjoined twins, thousands of different configurations recurring theme: people are animals.

Pattens made up of human bodies.

Lou is a tragic story about about a boy and his obsessive relationship with food. The whole story book is available in print here.

That moment when you were about seven years old and freaked out, because you stared at your face too long in the mirror.

A series of paintings and food tattoos. Breakfast, meats, hamburger and pie, sweets, Filipino food and my favorite, PORK BUNZ.

God my mind is filthy!

Forest Girl is a story about a wild, brave and magical girl who is just looking for a friends. These are some of the images from the story book.

A letter for you from me. Based of an untitled work by Neil Farber for the Permanent Collection show at the Nancy Margolis Gallery. July 2012.

A series of drawings about loss, growth and forgetting.

Thesis Statement December 13, 2011 The mind is the place where our whole existence occurs. Information about the world is gained through the senses, but actually made sense of in the mind, where thoughts are created, altered and lost. We are in this world but never experience anything beyond our bodies. Except in dreams and death, we never escape ourselves and our consciousness. Like our bodies, the mind is alive, a living organism that changes and grows over time. My thesis is an experiment in looking at the mind as a place that reflects the familiarity and strangeness of being alive. I aim to depict imaginary spaces that people can get lost in, can crawl into and explore. The process of "growing" these interior landscapes comes primarily through experimentation and repetition. I imagine that I myself am "growing" the places onto the paper as I paint them. I chose watercolor as my medium because of its immediacy. Even a spill or an accidental mark must be integrated into the whole composition. Watercolor is difficult to paint over or erase. The organic and accidental nature of the medium is refreshing to see in a world saturated with digitally produced images.