DAGGER

“I’m gonna rip your heart out

and bury it in the sand,

so the ocean can take it away”

This is my self protection amulet, my weapon.

In a symbolic way, I wanna use this dagger for stealing someone’s heart and at the same time to protect myself from a broken heart.

I’ve carried this piece from New York to Los Angeles, California, I had it in my lap and sometimes under my seat on the plane, we made it to Laguna where I thought I would move for the winter but there were other plans cooking in the meantime.

I took my dagger to one of my favorite beaches there at Sunset time but I wasn’t happy with how it looked with the orange tones from the sunset and I had no time to try another day so I had to wait a couple months until I got to my final destination and felt good to light it up. Finally February reminded me I had to use it so I could finally cut your chest in half and rip your heart out…

neon boobs personality

I’m so grateful for being able to create such uniques set of neon boobs for every women.

I admire and respect so much everyone’s personality, it’s fascinating. I also love how everyone has a different journey and walks in a different path but at the same time we’re all living this life and that connects us all somehow.

Very happy to share these beautiful neon boobs I made for a very special client.

Have a wonderful day,

Bomba.

I think these set is one of the most beautiful and authentic neon boobs I’ve made, in love!

A mirror thought

“Hugs to myself”

2020

10mm Ar+Hg

Now

Part of my constant practice is to balance my dreamy personality with the present moment, I keep reflecting and analyzing the absence and the presence of the people around me, I find this “antonym” fascinating, but not only that, is the experiences, the presence of nature and the emotions that I get to feel.

Living in the now is a beautiful and powerful experience, and I want you to try to do that too. I finally found the way to land safely in Planet Earth knowing that I can go back to my dreams, fantasies and adventures anytime I need to. NOW is a reminder for everyone to be here and to appreciate people, places and things we have in the moment.

“Now” 2020

8mm glass filled with Argon and Mercury

she bends catalogue

Special thanks to the Loveland Museum in Colorado for sending me our first edition of “She Bends” catalogue! I just received it in the mail.

She bends is the first collective of Womxn bending their own neon and i’m proud to be part of this community. Follow us and get to know all the incredible artists from all over.

Instagram: @shebends

I can't believe Memorial Day Weekend is here

Hi, just sharing these photos with the world wide web, it was just me at my studio having fun, feeling comfortable, playful and sexy, no makeup and no shame; is good to feel that way right? I’m normally shy. Also, how is it possible that Memorial Day weekend is here? Time seems passing by TURBO MODE and life is not the same than from it was a year ago… I’m still the same, except a better version of myself.

Please stay well and wear a mask out there.

Besos.

"I see a distant horizon..."

As part of my new collection of artwork called “Distant Island”, i’m exploring and really enjoying painting with watercolor and acrylics, I’ve used diminutive reflective glass beads in these new series of paints that keeps my light attraction present. Some of these works will feature a neon piece as well. I see a distant horizon in a place i’ve never been present before but i’ve seen a version of it in past travels. I’m deeply inspired by the snow and the sunlight and the effect that creates, the isolation and the fear of being alone in a place away from home.

I can’t wait to show you more of this.

Light & Fragile love,

Teresa.

“Mountains from far away” 2020

Grateful today

Today i’m grateful for having a warm bed and feeling healthy, for having enough food and being able to eat ice cream any time I want, saying that at loud feels like a luxury right now. I’m grateful that my family in Mexico is healthy as well and that we are in communication.

I’m grateful for all the wonderful moments i’ve lived in the past couple of years, i’ve been going through a lot and i’ve been strong enough to move on to happier and safer places. Just by thinking about all the problems in the world and terrible situations people have to go through makes my problems tiny and that’s why I don’t think is worth the time writing about it.

I’m grateful that I can be presence for a sunset or a sunrise either on the west or on the east coast where I live while a hold a rose, this also feels like a luxury.

Please be safe, I wish you the best always,

Teresa.

Santa Cruz, California.

September 2019

"Threesome"

This is a neon artwork I made back in 2017, the word “threesome” as far as I know, is related instantly to a sexual experience between 3 individuals, often seen as something is part of the devil or a sin at least in my culture and where I grew up. I learned that this type of experiences is not bad, depending in how you practice it and with who.

I’ve never been part of that adventure, maybe I never will, who knows?

Each tube represents 1 of the 3 individuals involved in this adventure, each one of them has its own light and adds an unique glow to the final “per se” encounter.

On a personal note, at the time I made this piece in 2017, I was going through a phase of discovering and exploring myself and accepting sexuality as something new and healthy without any judgments.

The final product was this simple abstract piece that adds a beautiful glow to any space.

Best always,

Teresa.

10mm and 12mm glass tube filled with Argon and Mercury.

“Threesome” 2017

A time at the neon shop means:

A time at the neon shop means:

1.- Relaxation: Working with Glass, gas and fire could be a lethal combination but I find that to be so (can’t find the word for it) uncertain. The fire melting the glass is so satysfing but once the glass gets cold could break very easily. Going bend after bend if nothing breaks could be very relaxing, i’m happy when I get to do that right.

2.- Frustration/Learning: I’m not pro, there are many factors that affects the glass, and one tiny mistake could break a whole stick of glass or work already bent, so that’s very frustrating, not having the right tools or sense of the temperature of the fire, etc also affects. But is a process and I’m learning from it while developing my ideas.

3.- Discover new music: Bending Glass is my favorite time to listen new music (Only when i’m not listening to my favorite playlists of course) Do you have any good recommendations? Send them over.

"I want us to love each other"

This piece reflects my constant desire, my declaration of peace, my feelings about nature, the right thing to do. The universal feeling, between you and me, your friends, family, animals and good things in life.

This piece is permanently in view in “Bekeb Artisanal Mixology” in San Miguel de allende, Mexico.

All my love and the best always,

Teresa.

Doug Wheeler and Noah Davis - David Zwirner Gallery

Doug Wheeler

Over the past five decades, Wheeler has become known for his innovative constructions and installations that engage with the perception and experience of light, space, and sound. On view will be an immersive environment by the artist that further expands on his groundbreaking investigations of the possibilities of luminous space. 

This is Wheeler’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery and coincides with the release of the first major monograph devoted to his work. David’s press release by the Gallery

Noah Davis.

Davis’s body of work encompasses, on the one hand, his lush, sensual, figurative paintings and, on the other, an ambitious institutional project called The Underground Museum, a black-owned-and-operated art space dedicated to the exhibition of museum-quality art in a culturally underserved African American and Latinx neighborhood in Los Angeles. The works on view will highlight both parts of Davis’s oeuvre, featuring more than twenty of his most enduring paintings, as well as models of previous exhibitions curated by Davis at The Underground Museum. Noah’s press release by the Gallery.

"She Cries (Part 3)"

“She cries (Part 3)”

She tries to hold her tears, 

but they’re in a rush to come out,

her heart was sad

but you look at her and smile, 

She tries to hide her feelings, 

but they come out as water from her eyes,

She cries to a dream

She cries for love

but soon her tears become joy. 

- Teresa Escobar 

Jason Rhoades: "Tijuanatanjierchandelier" on view David Zwirner Gallery

I recently went to check this exhibit out in Chelsea, this is the first time I get to see Jason Rhoades’s work in person and Is pretty cool, lots of neon as you can see in the photos.

Here are some of the words from the press release…

The title of the work refers to the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and Tangier, Morocco, two socially and culturally distinct locales separated by 6,000 miles, which Rhoades associates through their respective locations at the borders between the so-called developing world and the Euro-American West. The visually striking installation is composed of a chaotic web of dangling chandelier-like sculptures made up of neon lights and assorted wares the artist collected during his travels. Rhoades included fifty-one of these unique chandeliers in the original installation, forty-four of which are presented here. The sculptures are suspended above an array of items and souvenirs including mattresses, rugs, animal pelts, imposter handbags, sombreros, Moroccan lanterns, taxidermied animal heads, leather belts, ceramic gourds, trucker paraphernalia, bullwhips, and wooden maracas, among other found objects. Reminiscent of a bazaar or marketplace, the work addresses the rise of global tourism and consumerism—industries that have come to define the economies of these areas—while also visualizing the tension that emerges between cultural expression and identity, and cultural appropriation and stereotype. In his choice of these two locations, Rhoades also acknowledges the broader targeting of Latin Americans and Muslims in the post-9/11 political climate. Though created before the 2008 global recession, the global refugee crises, and the ensuing wave of xenophobic nationalism, Tijuanatanjierchandelier anticipated the tensions that have recently erupted between the drive for increased free trade and globalization and the persistence of traditional notions of national sovereignty and security.

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Sketch of "She Cries" Part III

Big Sur, Ca.

Neon Rose

8mm glass filled with argon and mercury

Fragile, yet powerful.

Neon tubes filled with Argon and Mercury, color selections for a 2020 project.

October is "Breast Cancer awareness" month

You’re a “Warrior”

A little late in the month but I wanted to create a special piece for every woman out there fighting, struggling and surviving day to day in this world and in this crazy thing called life.

I named this piece “Warrior” because that’s who we are by the fact we are fighting everyday to whatever we have to deal with, I don’t want to say you are only fighting to destroy cancer but you also fight against emotions and feelings, you also fight to make a living and be able to enjoy our passions and hobbies and be with our friends and families and also to earn that other thing we called money so we can eat and live and feed your babies and families, etc, but there you are going against all odds, staying strong, please stay strong, stay strong.

I gotta add to my calendar to do a checkup and I hope you do that too and we all can spread the voice and we can stay healthy too.

Love you,

Teresa.

Lighting up some boobs!

Hey guys, thanks for reading me, I had some neon boobs all over the place and I decided to have some fun and put them together in my studio just so I can show you how cool they look all lit up!

All these pieces are for sale, you can write me an email terebomba@gmail.com or leave a comment on the post.

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Top left: “Dominga”

Top right: “That purple life”

Middle left: “Swollen after surgery”

Middle right: “Bipolar”

Bottom left: “Growing up”

Bottom right: “Foreplay”