My Wonderful Self (Black)

Maico Camilo

66.93 × 70.87″

Acrylic paint

In “My Wonderful Self (BLACK)”, the artist unleashes a carnival of raw emotion and frenetic energy, where instinct triumphs over convention, and selfhood manifests as a vibrant, unfiltered spectacle. This Neo-Expressionist and Art Brut-inspired composition pulses with life, embracing spontaneous mark-making and the primal urgency of street art and graffiti culture.

Against a deep black void, a kaleidoscopic ensemble of characters erupts, their exaggerated features—wide, staring eyes, gaping mouths, and erratic linework—transforming into visceral totems of emotion. The neon palette—electric pinks, blues, yellows, and greens—radiates against the darkness, heightening the painting’s sense of movement, chaos, and celebration. The work is alive, its very essence laughing, shouting, and reveling in its own existence.

At the center, a larger-than-life duo crowned with radiant halos of yellow appears to orchestrate the surrounding chaos, their gaze piercing through the viewer with an unsettling yet captivating mix of innocence and mania. Around them, smaller, cartoonish entities multiply like subconscious fragments—playful spirits of creativity running wild across the canvas.

The composition thrives on the tension between densely packed imagery and negative space, refusing stillness and embodying identity as an ever-evolving, ever-multiplying force. It is a self-portrait in perpetual flux, a visual manifestation of the inner dialogue between joy, chaos, and uncontainable creative spirit. This work is as much an exploration of personal mythology as it is a reflection of the collective human psyche—untamed, expressive, and brimming with exuberance.

With “My Wonderful Self (BLACK),” the artist does not seek to refine but to release—to shatter the constraints of convention and invite the viewer into an unfiltered, ecstatic explosion of self-expression.