Observations On Perception

Ricardo Federico Morín is a Venezuelan-born American visual artist and essayist whose work examines how civic ethics, political culture, and perception shape public life. His bilingual essays—developed in parallel English and Castilian Spanish versions—consider the relation between attention, language, and agency through projects such as Unmasking Disappointment, The Ethics of Perception, The Ritual of Belonging, and The Withering of Culture. Each text approaches contemporary experience through careful observation and a commitment to accessible, structured narrative form.

Morín’s visual art extends these inquiries into composition. Working in oil, watercolor, drawing media, and digital painting, he engages geometry, memory, and spatial tension through minimal means. His paintings and works on paper explore how presence takes form through line, color, proportion, and the movement between structure and openness.

He lives and works between Pennsylvania and Florida, developing a body of writing and art that links civic reflection with a practice grounded in form and clarity.