Contemporary Visions and Hope
The Digital Art of Bob Pozos
In his retirement years, my brother Robert S. Pozos has taken his many years as a professor of biology developing instructional graphics and focused on digital fine arts. EncantoArte.com is the new home for his venture into the digital art world. Bob’s career in physiology focused on temperature regulation covering hypothermia - too little body heat to hyperthermia - too much body heat.
High temperatures tempered by coolness comes through in his advocacy for immigrants. Through out his scientific career Bob has supported and led efforts to increase the number of Mexican American and Native Americans in biological research. He was one of the founders of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science - SACNAS - which links undergraduate and graduate programs with major research funders such as the National Institutes of Health. As the children of our Mexican immigrant father and first generation Mexican American mother, immigration has always been more personal than abstract.
His Just Deported images focus on the unseen suffering of the most vulnerable as they are separated from their parents at the border. Although this policy has been tempered somewhat, Donald Trump proposes to pursue it if he is re-elected. The first poster features the fire and ice energy.
The energy themes are more muted in this monochromatic expression of a little girl in crisis suffering from state sponsored affliction. In the plight of a child we see the torment of millions on our southern border and around the world.
Anxiety (2024) is a lava lamp of color and movement caught from a cross sectional view. It’s evocative of Miro but with more organic shapes of rising and pulsating turbulence. It is the theme of our time as we hurl ourselves into the future amidst the challenges of confused souls. In his many years of working with students and living in San Diego and Duluth, Minnesota, Bob agonizes not only over the fate of immigrants but society more broadly.
Bob finds redemption, light, and whimsy in Easter (2024). The transformation of the lily into the revelation of the Risen Christ reveals a religious vision of the divine in nature and nature in the divine. Here the energy is more balanced and exultant. Emerging from a muted palette of sunrise, an incandescent interior light emerges from the lilies yielding the profile of resurrection with its spiral upward dance of joy.
You can see more of Bob’s wonderful images at EncantoArte.com.