Mural Nomad (est. 2018) is a project by Lina Zuluaga that explores drawing as a primary and dynamic medium. It remains essential to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought. Rooted in learning, failure, repetition, and experimentation, the work embraces both tradition and innovation.
Mural Mutations: My latest pieces, functional canvas totes, act as physical collages of my own drawings and curated image archives. This work is a tactile manifestation of "the scroll." Since the early 2000s, I have been building a personal digital archive by pulling images from platforms like Pinterest and Tumblr that disrupted the flow of the algorithm and demanded a second look.
Rooted in the traditions of appropriation art and archival inquiry, I treat these saved digital moments as found objects. I am interested in "digital decay" and how an image saved in 2008 becomes pixelated, re-contextualized, and eventually "sedimented" into our collective memory.
Process & Medium: Using the DTF (Direct-to-Film) process, I transfer these digital relics and hand-drawn marks onto the canvas. By layering, defocusing, and hand-embellishing each piece, I transform a fleeting screen-based experience into a permanent, painterly surface. Each tote is a 1-of-1 exploration of how we save, lose, and re-materialize the images that define our lives.
Note on Fair Use & Transformation: As a conceptual project rooted in the history of appropriation, Mural Nomad utilizes found digital imagery to create new, transformative works of art. We believe this re-contextualization, from the digital archive to the hand-finished physical object, falls under Fair Use guidelines. If you are a copyright holder of an image used in this archival project and wish to discuss its use, please contact us directly.
