Pedro Troncoso Featured in Creative Boom 

The Create Boom spoke with VillageOneArt collaborative artist Pedro Troncoso about the society, expectations, stereotypes, and identity in his artworks.

Pedro builds immensely creative artworks. He’s got a wild imagination that transfers directly onto the canvas, producing slightly chaotic yet utterly charming depictions of exaggerated people and unexpected scenes. It’s a modern take on self-portraiture, where Pedro applies paint to the page to make sense of society, stereotypes, self-image, and identity. “I mostly use my imagination to abandon cognition and welcome intuition,” he explains. “I consider it a mental space for my inner child; it is the only genuine toy I still have as an adult.”

“We end up pretending to fit into stereotypical collective experiences (beauty standards, gender roles, etiquettes) rather than also cultivating the personal ones. I hope they set their own expectations, fly in their own ways, or build their own planes just as I did with aviation.”