The first time I considered myself an artist was with the Mutations series. Many years ago now. Sometimes I look at the digitized works and I feel that people must be bored by now because I have shared them so much. But on the other hand, I know that wherever I go there will be new people who enjoy discovering them, or rediscovering them if they already know me.
My series are usually small, not so many works, and I got used to work this way (in series) because of the university where I studied, "because that's the way it should be", because there has to be a reason behind them, because we have to know how to explain them, we have to know what we say with them, etc etc. But many times there are no words. And that is why we paint. That's why we have this desperate need to generate images. And many, but many of these images sometimes come as a flash, without warning, without explanation, without knowing why. And sometimes soaking them in words limits them. It shortens their expansive interpretation in the one who observes them. On the other hand I confess that sometimes I like to have the context of a work of another artist (sometimes? always?... I don't know), because sometimes it can be useful to know, to delve into that mind that has produced that work that captivates me so much.
I love Francis Bacon. I love reading his interviews, how he thought, his approach to his work, and his life. That helps me to give his works more of a tint. But I know that his works speak for themselves. Seeing Bacon's work goes through you like a knife, it moves you, it shocks you. And when you are in a "particular" mood it can move even the smallest hair. But that's why I also recognize that his interviews can be anecdotal. A bit to draw the "artist character".
Where I studied I was brainwashed with the "speech", which must have (literally said by one of my professors) a "little story" behind it.
I became indignant. I blocked myself. I didn't know what I was saying, I didn't know what was behind my work, I didn't know how to put words to it. I just knew they were coming from a place so deep, so dark, and in such need of coming to light. I felt I was putting it all out there. I was trying to explain in a graphic way "imagine turning the inside of your body outwards, as if it were a sock", because that was what I felt, that all that vulnerability, that barrier to the outside was being continuously violated, transgressed. That I had no shield from everything that was happening on the outside. It was that painful and terrible.
This series did not heal me. I wrote its little story, which I repeat today, which has real sensations, honest content, but which I will always think that somehow it is not enough, that it does not make sense.
This series did not heal me, and then I stopped painting assiduously for a long time. I no longer remember how long. I felt that I had emptied myself. I didn't know what to say/paint anymore. That emptiness was quite terrible, but what I learned about myself! A lot! There I felt like an artist for a while, really. The origin of that work was so honest, it was so necessary to go through it!
That's why I have this love and respect for it. I accepted the discourse, I embraced it, and today I share it in my posts. It is not a lie, I just feel that it's something forced. Because the image is there and it tells you everything.
I share with you a work from this series called "About what is not said". An oil on canvas 60x80 cm. I will be sharing the rest of the works throughout my publications.
See you and read us!