Andrey Quintana paints with intention of creating splendor and beauty in search of liberation from dark times. He uses an actual bullet— an object typically used to inflict pain— as his brush, in a magical transformative process. Quintana's paintings are large canvases of vibrantly colored flowers. His technique creates thick, lustrous, textured fields. The artist conveys the need for change while provoking the viewer to remember and rejoice in nature's beauty.