The Process of my Painting Through Time
All that happens in my paintings unfolds almost fluidly, like a medium in my hands and this earthly plane. By taking advantage of natural forces, something gets communicated, albeit encrypted. These forces are like messengers who come to tell me a hidden story, which I discover step by step. I aim to open up a frequency with the viewers and even provoke them, either with form, color or through gestures, sometimes even creating a certain discomfort, an inner search, to solicit their own interpretation.
The series:
There is an open and wild cry in the inversion of cruelty, and critique of animal abuse and a contribution to the abolition of this outrageous, indigestible and abominable cultural practice. It’s there were there is also a chaotic, bloody and violent reading. I worked in exaggeratedly large formats to symbolize this theme using oil painting on canvas. In the short study of birds, I symbolize the experience of observation, birds are messengers of remote stories, journeys of dreams; they symbolize a new awakening, which I also rendered in large format using the technique of oil painting on canvas.
More recently, nature is the center of my expressions, where flora and symbolism have been the narrative interpretation of my paintings, emerging with a double reading, first rendered in an aesthetic, attractive, enigmatic manner, where the force of color seduces at first sight. The composition gives balance to this apparent disorder. In a second deeper, more symbolic, hermetic and esoteric reading, everything converges into an encrypted space. Behind the flowers, there are hidden situations, emotions, etc. These are much more than flowers, as glanced at first sight.
Normally of a complex reading: chaotic because there is a lot of information, but orderly based on the composition that allows the curious eye of the viewer to enter little by little between the numerous layers and in-between layers that are being forged in those worlds. Here, I use small format paper of 300 grams; taking advantage of all the material: ink, at times oil pastel, chalk pencils, calligraphy pens of different kinds that help me to re-define, draw, create textures and sign my works.
My numen arises similar to spontaneous germinations of the intensity of my deep being; of every cell I inhabit, of nature and everything that exists in it.
My inspirations are manyfold and come from diverse sources: music, reading, my photography with its own aesthetic, the vibrancy of nature, my friends, flora, fauna, folk tales, travels, architecture, landscapes and the folklore that surrounds them. And love, this indispensable ingredient. My emotions and all that happens around me are intimately linked to my painting.
The creative process of my work is to simply symbolize part of the stories that emerge from different worlds; based on encounters with others, and offer gestural acts as rituals. It is of the utmost importance to vindicate these gestural acts, to concretize them in expressions, to reconnect us with the roots of our identities, so to remember who we are as a community and remind us where we are going.
Color comes out intensely as a pure expression of my spirit, reflecting an endless number of worlds. The intensity of the forms that were created by color, the lines, transparencies, the extravagance of color, the gesture of offering it similarly to a divine offering opens up an emotional frequency that is different for each viewer.
There is no greater stimulus for me than the inexhaustible wonders of nature, the need to listen, feel, touch, flow. It is a blessing to be part of this process in this natural world, from which I take abundant nourishment on this journey without borders.
Don't forget that the earth delights in feeling your bare feet
and the winds yearn to play with your hair.
- Khalil Gibran -
Translated by Ilka Kressner
