Sir has studied Visual Arts, Theatre, Architecture, Arts Management, Law, and Pedagogy — a breadth of training that shows up in how he moves between mediums rather than settling into one.
"My style is figurative — there's something interesting in figuration itself, in the act of observing reality, passing it through human perception, and communicating an idea through painting or drawing."
Max Sir
At a certain point, in a process of inner search, Sir withdrew to the extreme south of the world to meditate — a six-year retreat from public life. Upon his return, he began travelling through the world's great capitals, studying their culture and producing new projects, among them the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz project, exploring the life and writing of the 17th-century poet and scholar.
That same instinct — to slow down rather than speed up — still defines his approach to drawing today: a deliberate, observational practice he treats as a way of habitar el presente, of properly inhabiting the present moment.