Mountains. Red sunsets and mirrored lakes, ancestral energy, mystical forces... a silent call that escapes from the high peaks in the icy breeze to whisper in our ears words of freedom, inviting us to pursue that resounding feeling in our chest with our heart as a guiding diamond that directs our course, and a will of steel as an unbeatable inner force. In this way, being aware of how hard the fall may be, of how badly we will spend some moments of the way: sliding, perhaps even hitting hard against the rocks, with hands and knees shaking, with scratches, bruises, feeling how every muscle and fiber of our body being vibrate and shiver before the obstacles that are presented until we are almost exhausted, cultivate the wisdom that allows us to find good reasons in the pain, and embrace it, give it warmth, shape, channel it and transform it, knowing that to stop feeling pain is to give in to the inertia of that tide of securities that drags the masses into the quietness of the known terrain, into the plain that hardly tests us, that presents itself without exasperation or offers great conquests. Fear can paralyze us and make us stop fighting for ourselves, for our beliefs and dreams, for our passions, for elevating ourselves; to be afraid, to stagnate in a safe place, is equal to letting oneself die in life? We have to keep going on, doing it at a steady pace with a positive attitude and a smile as a flag entrusting us to our own path, following our passions beyond the known limits before our sunset surprises us to remind us that we could have done: one step at a time, rock by rock, blow by blow, danger after danger, to whatever summit we intend to reach.
With this image in mind, I want to start a new life journey in 2021 entirely dedicated to art and the appreciation of this beautiful world, giving myself permission to do what I love, love so much... to enjoy good company and to enjoy every second of this magical gift that is life, is only one, no more. I want to enjoy the place where I chose to live in this world, of those moments that make that everything bad dissapear and worth a thousand times to pass trought that for to live one more time. Personally, I feel that we live in a world from which we have taken so much energy and to which we have given so little in return, a world full of magic in which - at this point in our existence - we already have the obligation to turn around and reconnect with our spiritual, artistic side, that which has been denied to us for so long and which we have relegated to second planes for superfluous and material reasons that have done more harm than good, delegating and forgetting aspects that make up the essence of life such as perception, contemplation, care, to share with others, learning, enjoyment, transmutation...
Appreciate the moment with the soul and with all your senses. To inquire into the depths of the soul, of the cosmos. To breathe. To heal. To rescue the ancient knowledge and to invoke with ancestral rites and symbols the presence in our lives of ancient spirits... to let them slip through our body and run through our veins, to touch our soul... to transmute, to awaken, to be one with the universe. That is what my journey in this life is about and that is exactly what I would like to share with you and infect the world through my art... may my artistic voice resonate with more than one of you as one more call for change.
GAIA needs us.
"Go for your peaks"
Concept art for VARDA.