In a quiet corner of the cosmos, where space breathes and silence speaks, lives Peca—Argentine-born, Barcelona-based conjurer of surreal worlds. Her paintings are not static objects, nor windows into parallel realities. They are maps—existential topographies stitched with dreams, meditations, and allegories. To look at a work by Peca is to dive into an astral sea of anthropomorphic creatures, floating limbs, strawberries, clouds, and cosmic riddles—all rendered with meticulous tenderness and painted urgency.

Each image arrives like an oracle whispered from her subconscious. The mystical beings she creates—soft-eyed, otherworldly, often mid-transformation—are not merely characters but vessels of philosophical inquiry. They do not entertain, they initiate. They ask questions of the viewer that language cannot contain: Who are you before thought? What do you fear in stillness? What, precisely, is sacred?

Sacred Stories in Strawberry Fields

The artist’s recent series, Allegories & Cupcakes, spins like a mythic carousel across a dream-desert where gravity floats and paws walk paths toward the holy grail of meaning. These are sacred stories, yes, but with frosting. A surrealist parable disguised as sweetness.

A trip where feet, paws, claws, clouds, sand, fluttering, cosmic movements, embroidered skin, holy fruits, delicious creams, ethereal breaths, floating beings, failures, fun, and loneliness are mixed in an organized equilibrium about to succumb.

– She writes.

The syntax stumbles, dances, and nearly levitates—just like her paintings.

Peca draws upon her own fragmented past, growing up under Argentina’s brutal dictatorship. Her early refuge in The Beatles and piano keys transformed into a life-long creative act of self-rescue. Her path led from sketching in music theory classes to engraving accolades and eventually to Barcelona, where the mystical finally found form on canvas. It is here that her visual language matured—part myth, part memory, part galactic lullaby.

Hopi Dreams and Cosmic Guides

In her Hopi Dreams series, Peca channels aboriginal wisdom and cosmological longing. The figures—gowned in embroidered stardust, eyes wide as galaxies—serve as spiritual avatars.

Each character has its own mission and represents a specific enigma.

– She says.

These are not passive portraits but participatory riddles. They ask us to confront the ambiguity of our own existence while reassuring us with their serene, knowing gaze.

Her inspiration leans heavily into the metaphysical. Astronomy, mysticism, anthropology, and music swirl together in her mental palette. The result? Works that feel both ancient and extraterrestrial, simultaneously reverent and playful. The figures often gaze from vast night skies punctured with stars, their heads haloed by orbiting symbols. Space here is not cold and infinite—it is intimate, pulsing with potential.

Symbolism as Meditation, Painting as Prayer

To understand Peca’s visual code is not to decode it but to surrender to it. The eye is a motif—multiplied, magnified, omniscient—symbolizing awakened perception. Strawberries appear not as childhood confections but as potent emblems of fertility, sweetness, and latent possibility. Her anthropomorphic beings are often alone yet never lonely. They float, they wander, they endure. Their solitude mirrors the artist’s own meditative journey through painting, which she calls a “philosophical exercise of self-knowledge.”

Peca’s work belongs to a lineage of visionary artists—from Leonora Carrington to Remedios Varo—whose practices pierce the veil of the seen. But she’s no derivative. Her voice is singular, shaped by a deep and idiosyncratic spiritual drive.

My paintings are the materialization of the dreams within my mind which are all connected to the universal experience.

– She explains.

It’s not metaphor. It’s initiation.

Animating the Inert, Transcending the Frame

Beyond the canvas, Peca has begun crafting wooden interactive characters—stop-motion inspired beings with moveable limbs, built to engage directly with the viewer.

The idea centers around the concept of giving life to the inert.

– She says.

This desire—to animate, to breathe consciousness into symbol—is at the heart of her entire practice. Whether through graphite, oil, or wood, Peca performs a kind of ontological puppetry. Her figures may be painted, but they are never still.

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To experience Peca’s universe is to remember something you thought you had forgotten—a dream, a smell, a creature you saw as a child and dismissed as imaginary. Her work reminds us that the spiritual and the fantastical are not separate from the mundane. They are its luminous underside.

So, stare into the eyes of her beings. Let their silence teach you. Their message, like a comet passing through a strawberry sky, is both a warning and a blessing: the answers are already inside you. You just have to look long enough.