Installed as part of the artist’s growing urban gallery surrounding his Santiago studio, this mosaic continues an ongoing investigation into chromatic reduction, image persistence and symbolic repetition. Reconstructing Salvador Dalí through a restricted palette of blues, reds, oranges, yellows, black and white, the work demonstrates how complex figurative images can emerge from a limited set of handcrafted visual units.

Developed in the 80 × 80 cm format that would later become a recurring scale throughout the urban series, the intervention extends a chromatic system first explored in earlier public mosaics and refined through years of experimentation with distance perception and optical synthesis. Viewed from nearby, the image dissolves into individual tesserae and contrasting color fields; from afar, the fragmented structure recomposes into a recognizable portrait, revealing the mechanisms through which perception constructs visual coherence from discrete information.
As one of several works installed within a distributed network of mosaics surrounding the artist’s studio, the piece contributes to an evolving open-air archive where classical, surrealist and pop-cultural references coexist within everyday urban circulation. More than a portrait of Dalí, the work functions as part of a larger investigation into symbolic invocation, demonstrating how certain cultural figures continue to reappear across time through new material systems, scales and contexts.