MOTIVATION
Leaving a trace of your existence is a necessity in life. Creating art is a way to achieve it, it's inheriting your essence to a piece. You download your ideas and feelings into a creation until it takes shape and becomes a reality, but the process is not always that easy, we need inspiration, space, be surrounded by phenomena, and cultures, and I believe that when people's ideas that are not yet shaped intersect, creations evolve faster and the process becomes funnier.
THE AUTHOR
Based out of New York City, Ruben Flores is a Software Engineer, Photographer, and Art student who finds inspiration in nature, architecture, and his own life.
In 2004 he started drawing and participating in drawing contests, his passion for arts has been growing and developing ever since. 3 years later, in 2007 he started painting and doing photography as a hobby, at the age of 25, he went to "Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales" (CAAV), in Guadalajara, Mexico, to attend street photography and filmmaking courses.
In 2019 he moved on to NYC to work as a full-time Software Engineer, however, he continues doing digital and film photography, short films, and painting at
"The Art Students League of New York".
He created Ruflas as a project to share his latest work, but the main intention is to build a collaborative art-oriented community where ideas can evolve and become reality.
Check out more of his work and alter ego at @rubenzoom