Based in Miami, Florida, but keeping an apartment in New York City, Hernan Bas is an artist whose works include video installation, paintings and drawings and express a wide range of interests. His pieces, such as Fleeting Moments and Fragile Moments, include a fascination for kites, which he uses as symbolic vehicles to convey messages about life and death and suicide. In his works, he also uses other items to convey references to the past and changing times such as fallen tree branches, Victorian jewelry, candles and fake hair.

In the summer of 2005, Bas was in residency in Giverny, France at the estate of Claude Monet as a participant in the Artists at Giverny Program. Pain...