“Gusano #1 (Worm #1) by artist Jose Angel Vincench is a gold leaf on canvas art piece made in 2014. It measures four feet by four feet and is hung on the wall, parallel to the floor. This artwork is an example of geometric abstraction, which is a style of art that’s based on the use of geometric objects placed in an imagined setting, it does not depict a visual reality. In this artwork we only see three colors: the black of the frame, the white of the canvas, and the gold of the gold leaf. Dividing the piece into four equal quadrants, the top left quadrant contains one single geometric shape, and it takes up almost the whole area of that quadrant. This shape looks like the letter “c” in block form and on the bottom of this geometric form, it looks like there was a triangle shape cut out of the main “c” shape. Moving on to the top right quadrant, there is a vertical rectangular shape coming down from the top of the canvas and reaching past the halfway mark of the quadrant, it’s slightly smaller than the “c” shape. There is also a cut out. This rectangular shape seems to have the bottom left corner cropped out in a downward diagonal fashion. For the bottom left and bottom right quadrants, there’s one giant shape that lives in both sections and it slightly climbs into the top right quadrant. If we were to divide the large geometric shape into smaller ones, starting from left to right, the first shape would be a vertical parallelogram coming in from the bottom left corner of the canvas, slightly leaning towards the right. Moving towards the right, the next shape would be one that looks like an upside-down bridge, it’s a long thin shape, the bottom side being horizontal, and the top part is an elongated curve, curving downward. It is connected to the parallelogram on the top right side. This bridge lives half in the bottom left quadrant and half in the bottom right quadrant. Now in the bottom right quadrant, the shape connected to the upside-down bridge is an upside-down “L.” The long part of the “L” is parallel to the right edge of the canvas, and it stops right above the bottom of the canvas. The shorter side is on the top, horizontal. The shorter side of the “L” climbs into the top right quadrant but no shapes are touching. The size of this “L” is almost double the size of the parallelogram. The last shape is a very small triangle, almost the same size as the triangle cutout in the “c” shape. The triangle is protruding from the bottom right corner of the upside-down bridge shape, pointing down. “