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Visual Lexicon is a collection of terms, concepts, aesthetics, and cultural references that inform and shape my artistic practice. Together they form an evolving vocabulary through which I explore the relationships between digital culture, visual media, technology, and contemporary society.

My approach is associative, drawing from art history, popular culture, internet subcultures, politics, technology, and everyday experiences. I am particularly interested in the way visual languages emerge, circulate, and transform across different cultural and technological environments.

Through this process of collecting and categorizing, I am interested in how cultural identities are assembled from fragments of history, media, memory, and personal experience. The lexicon functions as both a research archive and a reflection to my artistic methodology, examining how images circulate, acquire meaning, and contribute to our collective imagination of American culture.

Yeltsin Penado // 2026