Collection: Moon/Lo que sueño

This collection of items is created from my painting "Lo que sueño" (What I dream). This painting was chosen as the winning piece in a competition called "Completa la Figura" (Complete the figure) with Quinto Orden. If you want to learn more about the competition and the artwork, you can visit YouTube channel and Quinto Orden’s Blog.

Blog: https://www.quintoorden.com/blog/quinto-orden-presenta-a-karelisse-caraballo-villanueva

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOuLAk7FQKQ&t=1s

“Lo que sueño” winning artwork from “Completa la Figura” contest by Quinto Orden. (2024)

"Lo que sueño" is the piece that made me realize that I am an artist and that I want to be an artist. About ten years ago, I promised myself that I would create art, but I kept postponing it to focus on my other professional career. That career doesn’t offer much room for creativity. So, for all these years, I would only make time for art to canalize emotions or simply as a hobby. It wasn’t until I won that competition that I thought maybe this artist path can become something real.

When I finished the painting, I realized that it remembers me of some photos I took in Guánica, Puerto Rico.

Starry night with a person sitting in rocks and the ocean in the background. Guánica, Puerto Rico.

When we look at the piece, I wanted to paint the moon in unreal colours because it’s a dream. That’s why I used fuchsia for the interior and cerulean blue for the edge. I went through an editing process where I transferred the artwork to a digital program and created a vector design. I specifically chose the colours from the original painting and selected the closest matches from the supplier’s options. I thought about what kinds of items I’d like people to carry or find useful here in Puerto Rico.

This moon is super important to me because it’s the part I chose to extract from the painting and print onto the items in the store. It represents a dream. What I hope people think or feel when they buy and carry these items is to believe in themselves and to go after their dreams the kind of dreams that feel like butterflies in your stomach. That spark that tells you “yes.” That gut feeling that won’t stop screaming at you to go for it.

That, to me, is the moon. That, to me, is "Lo que sueño".