Contrast lies at the core of Mickey Pujolar Leray’s practice:
shadow and light, creation and destruction.

Up close, the raw marks of the surface reveal the fragility of a manual process. From a distance, the fragmented field resolves into an image that appears almost photographic. The work is not concerned with representation but with subtraction — with the question of what remains when everything else is on the verge of disappearance.

Pujolar Leray constructs images of spaces defined by absence: kitchens, bedrooms, cathedral naves, fields of trees bent by the wind — environments reduced to their essential structure.
Each work unfolds as a gradual revelation. Drawing, cutting, inking and tearing become part of a physical process in which layers are slowly removed rather than added.
Through this act of erosion, the image emerges.

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