En Tu Burbuja

Acrylic on canvas

39.37”x40.15”

In En Tu Burbuja (“In Your Bubble”), Susana Casillas renders a delicate and poignant vision of introspection, portraying a woman suspended in a vast emotional ocean—contained, yet untethered. Housed within a transparent fishbowl, the subject is adrift among glowing goldfish, bathed in blues and warm flashes of amber, like fleeting moments swimming through the subconscious. Casillas’ signature cracked texture once again adorns the woman’s face and body, evoking the slow erosion of time and emotion. Her gaze is distant, her presence spectral—caught in a state between stillness and surrender. The water becomes both her protector and her prison, creating a fragile barrier between her inner sanctum and the chaos of the external world. The fish, luminous and restless, weave between currents of memory and thought, suggesting whispers of forgotten joy, ephemeral connections, or quiet longing. Their movement animates the composition with life, while the bowl itself—both lens and wall—reminds us how solitude can be both sanctuary and isolation.

With En Tu Burbuja, Casillas explores the paradox of containment: the safety found in withdrawing inward, and the ache of being unseen within one’s own invisible dome. It is a portrait of stillness in motion, of silence echoing through liquid light—a reflection on the spaces we create to survive ourselves.