About

“What is essential in a work of art” says Carl Jung, “is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak from the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.” In other words, to abstract not to obscure but to reveal.

ARTIST STATEMENT

TRANSACTION TO THE ABSTRACTION  (Actual Work)

Gradually those figurative calm-looking landscapes, where the water was a significant element, always present, started to become blurred and became timid forms of abstraction; I was interested in the spaces created by water, the textures, the sediments, the geometric shapes caused by erosion. I was trying to understand them in a different way, I wanted to know what they were made of, what they were composed of, and how that calm-looking water eroded the rocks and shaped the soils. They were not just external shapes drawn on a distant horizon but shapes in constant transformation. The landscape as a living being where water was always present. Water is the most common symbol of the unconscious. In psychology, it is a symbol that represents the deepest layers of the structure of our own psyche. As I looked at the landscapes I made a discovery, somehow they revealed observations to me, it was as if they were talking to me and discovering me through their shapes. Those waters, in the same way that they transformed the earth, started remodeling a new being in me, giving shape to a new person and therefore in that same way that I was discovering my new being in layers, I was decomposing those landscapes to compose again.