Segura has addressed various themes and styles throughout her career, favoring abstraction, a traditional artistic movement historically linked to the vanguards of the second half of the 20th century. However, if we trace back in time, we can find examples as ancient as schematic representations and geometric patterns present in cave paintings and petroglyphs from places such as Val Camonica in Italy, Cundinamarca in Colombia, Valle del Encanto in Chile, or Boca de Potrerillos in Nuevo León, Mexico, among other locations worldwide. Another example of abstraction persisting from prehistoric times to the present are the complex geometric motifs found in pottery and textiles from various cultures around the world. This allows us to reflect on art and its function to express concepts. It is worth noting that art and writing share a common origin that links and distinguishes them, similar to the connection between the genesis of music and language.

​

When analyzing art in its various forms formally, we can see that both figuration and abstraction are plastic mechanisms that enable the expression of ideas and feelings. Abstraction is particularly close to writing, as it is itself a complex conceptualization of language that derives from the need to communicate a message. This message can be transmitted from one individual to another in a manner analogous to phonetic language, using the capacity of individuals to perceive images visually as a tool for receiving messages. The sender uses the sense of touch to generate images through strokes that graphically represent the idea to communicate. These images were schematic figures highlighting the characteristic attributes of the subject or object, so that anyone in the environment could understand what they referred to. Over time, these pictograms evolved into more complex and abstract writing systems, such as the ideograms in the cuneiform script used in languages like Sumerian, Chaldean, Akkadian, Assyrian, Old Persian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, or Ugaritic, as well as in the ancient Han or Chinese characters (hànzì).

 

The Chinese script is highly complex, combining pictograms, simple ideograms, compound ideograms, rebus characters, phonosemantic characters, and cognates, with additional value given to the execution of each glyph by these cultures. The beauty and virtuosity of the strokes determine the mastery of the artist. Notably, the work of calligraphers such as Feng Chengsu (617–672), Zeng Gong (1019–1083), Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), or Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), among other renowned artists, is regarded as one of China’s most significant cultural manifestations. Consequently, it is highly sought after by important collectors from the East willing to pay tens of millions of dollars. However, this tradition remains little known and valued in the West. Paradoxically, widespread ignorance of this artistic manifestation has made it a source of inspiration for movements such as Abstract Expressionism in the United States and Informalism in countries like France, Spain, and Italy.

​

Following the principles of L'Art informel, Segura abandons conventional plastic guidelines to express emotions and feelings through a spontaneous and gestural creative process characterized by the absence of a predetermined formal compositional structure. This process involves variables such as chance and intuition—latter understood as a subjective manifestation of the subconscious—that significantly influence compositional rhythms, chromatic tendencies, and material load, conferring uniqueness to each work. Segura explores various techniques, materials, and supports as part of a creative experimentation process that involves introspection aimed at communicating both conscious and unconscious emotional states through an abstract plastic language.