Eugenio Garcia is a Milan-based artist and event designer from Monterrey, Mexico. He trained as an architect and has spent over a decade building large-scale sets across Europe and the Middle East, designing spaces meant to change how a room feels the moment you walk in.

The paint chips came first. As a kid in Monterrey, he went to Home Depot with his mother and got stuck in front of the paint chip wall. Thousands of colors, perfectly organized, free to take. He took some. Then more. At home, he made small collages. It didn’t mean anything yet, which was probably the point.

The technique showed up much later and took years to make any sense. The idea came in 2022. The 2023 attempts were bad. It wasn’t until 2024, after months of obsessing over pixel size, alignment, and why everything looked right on a screen but wrong in real life, that something clicked. He had been trying to eliminate imprecision. Eventually, he let it in. Letting go of perfection became the point.

The process is simple and exhausting. Take an image, pixelate it, match every pixel to the closest paint sample, source the chips from Home Depot like a normal person, cut thousands of 1×1 cm squares, and put them back together. Most works land somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000 pieces, depending on how patient he’s feeling that week.

He doesn’t make the work to say something. He makes it to stop thinking. Placing squares for hours is less artistic expression and more like a private reset. The message is the byproduct. The silence is the point.