All my work is self-referential, and I have a methodology to obtain the images that I have sustained, with its variants, over time. The Mutations series served me to experiment with the image, and I think that is where my identity as an artist was defined. The more I write, the more I realize what that moment in my life meant. So defining in so many ways.
From the insides ( De dentro ) is a self-portrait. When I painted it, it was incredible the connection I felt to it. I literally saw me.
To arrive at this image I ruled out several possibilities. Some more interesting than others. There is something animal here, creaturely. And I think there's something of that, of going a little bit out of the human in terms of representation, but that serves me precisely to explore the deepest feelings, the most inherent in us.
In many of my paintings my face appears, but I do not consider all of them as a self-portrait. Sometimes it happens that my whole body is at the disposal of what I want to say. I mean that through it I can "name", put an image to a subject that generates my interest, which always arises from things that particularly move me, but I feel that it can also be extended to other people. I don't think that what I experience is only something that can happen to me. It can happen that you find yourself in my paintings, that you see yourself reflected.
I think I'm going off on a tangent, so this is as far as I'll write. This work is an oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm. I hope you can notice the subtleties in the temperature changes of the skin (I love working with color from the temperatures), and I also hope you like it.