Colored pencil, graphite, and ink on paper | 18” x 24”
In Speak, Karel Garcia transforms the act of expression into a celestial event. A radiant figure exhales a stream of swirling, symbolic tendrils—part smoke, part spell, part spirit—toward a luminous, star-like source. Her wild, flowering hair bursts across the page in waves of yellow, green, and violet, suggesting that speech itself is an act of blooming, of release, of becoming.
Garcia’s intricate linework fills the exhaled forms with hypnotic spirals, while the soft graphite background creates a calm void that lets each detail shine. Flowers entwine with strands of hair, reinforcing the idea that language—when honest—is generative, organic, and alive.
Executed in colored pencil, India ink, and graphite on 18” x 24” paper, Speak is a vivid meditation on power, vulnerability, and voice. It comes framed and includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
For collectors moved by narrative symbolism, femininity, and the interplay between chaos and clarity, Speak is a visual poem.