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about the cover JoséLuisCeña Evocation Born inMálaga in1982, José LuisCeña is a FineArts graduate from theComplutenseUniversity inMadrid, where he hasmade his home and is currently being fundedby theRoyal Mint Foundation for his studies in engraving and graphicdesign. Ceña’s pictorial work is benevolent, but weighty in its transcription. Itmoves between light and shadow, diving into concepts throughbrushstrokes that, albeit bornewith a certain tenderness, peel backwhat is visible inorder to suggest what is not, what is hidden away. His figures seem kindly, affectionate, simple souls, worryingly close in space and especially so in time. Light, worked exhaustively both as abackground and as form, emerges as something that reveals and executes as spiritual enlightenment and a brilliance that annihilates shadow. Inhis aquatic and sub- aquatic scenes, the artist placeswith the various nuances that light throws up in contact withwater, allowing its gleam tobe submerged, reflectedor refracted, distorting forms and flirtingwithperception. He is very skilled at imbuing apicture 95