Raisa Gates / Blue Daydream Originals Can we take a moment

Can we take a moment for the oil stick used in this artwork — adding a three-dimensional element that feels like a little piece of the artist's studio right inside your home

Influenced by both her Venezuelan heritage and her life in Toronto

Her paintings embrace this tension

Through this

encouraging a kind of slow looking

Raisa Gates / Blue Daydream Originals Can we take a momentRaisa Gates is a Filipina American artist based between Arizona and Paris. Gates artistic narrative is an exploration of the self and our connections woven with others. Turning to the body as her foundation. Her painted figures bare, gathered, resting in one anothers presence seem to inhabit a realm beyond language. Through her work, she extends an invitation to viewers to ponder the nuanced intricacies of human relationships. Her art serves as a