Jose Rivera’s fluid, yet intricate and intuitively composed work is permeated with a sense of horror vacui. Within his extensive body of works on paper, figures, architectural elements, and unfathomable machinery, emerge slowly from seemingly abstract compositions. Consciously or not, Rivera inserts himself into his drawings, creating self-portraits within these obsessive constructions of his mind. Despite the presence of recognizable forms that can be glimpsed, the work defies categorization and ultimately, like a Rorschach test, is open to a variety of interpretations.