My Wonderful Self (Yellow)

Maico Camilo

66.93 in × 70.87″

Acrylic paint

In “My Wonderful Self (YELLOW),” the artist ignites the canvas with an uncontainable force of color, movement, and raw emotion, crafting a work that vibrates with electric intensity. This Neo-Expressionist fusion of abstract portraiture and urban iconography recalls the uninhibited energy of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the primal urgency of Art Brut, where selfhood is deconstructed and reassembled in a riotous, visual symphony.

At the heart of the composition, a crowned figure emerges—an electrified monarch of imagination, its neon-rimmed eyes wide with surreal bewilderment, its exaggerated mouth frozen in an ecstatic proclamation. Surrounding this central presence, a chaotic court of expressive, gestural beings competes for attention, their eyes bulging, mouths agape, each form pulsating with its own frenetic energy.

The unrelenting yellow backdrop intensifies the painting’s dynamism, providing a stark, almost blinding contrast to the wild symphony of electric blues, fiery reds, and neon greens that course through the composition. The layering of distorted faces and tangled lines suggests a mind in perpetual motion—a relentless stream of thoughts, emotions, and identities colliding and coexisting in brilliant disarray.

Yet beneath the jubilant, almost chaotic facade, there is a deeper introspection. The work oscillates between order and disorder, joy and anxiety, personal mythology and universal human expression. The artist tears open the psyche and spills it onto the canvas, embracing the raw, unfiltered nature of self-exploration.