“I want to show the magic and beauty of these places through my artwork and highlight the importance of protecting our natural environment,” he said. “In a way, my artwork represents the nostalgic memory and presence of my native Colombia. The movement, the color, the dancing, the music, even the extremes of hope and tragedy. It’s all in there.”
Ortiz points to seminal moments in his artistic career with ease, and there are at least three. The first, he said, came after increased violence led his family to flee Colombia in 1999, and he found respite in art as he made a new home in America as an immigrant teenager. The second came in 2008, just as he was finishing up his degree in fine arts at MassArt. There he studied with Kayiga, whose art seeks the "primitive" in the sense of exploring the essence of human consciousness. At the time, Ortiz was using washed out colors, layering them to create abstracts, trying to find a focus for his art.

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