Following a near-death experience with Covid, Parlá visited his hometown of Miami, Florida, and began experimenting with painting outdoors, a stark contrast to his industrial studio in Brooklyn. ⁠
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Nature, brilliant sunlight and distorted visions and memories from his medically induced coma inform this new body of work consisting of ten intimate-sized works executed during this fertile period of painting, as well as two characteristically large-scale paintings.⁠