The Evolution series by Paco Dalmau builds upon a legacy in which painting becomes a space for introspection, transformation, and the articulation of the self. This approach connects with the Abstract Expressionists—artists like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, or Jackson Pollock—who treated painting as a medium for existential reflection, where gesture and matter embodied interior life. For Dalmau, this serves as a foundation rather than a model. While his work shares their introspective sensibility, it focuses more specifically on the layered and mutable nature of identity over time.