Stone candles

"Stone candles"

Watercolor on paper, 14 Aug. 2007

  Interesting surrealist contrast between what we know and what we see. Candles that we know are light, warm, soft. These are solid, dark and cold.

We can create concepts of things non existing, and still give them a place in our world, independently of its convenience... just because we can.

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The pulse of Gaia

"The pulse of Gaia"
 

Acrylic, washed ink and pen on paper, 27 Dec. 1977

 

"The pulse of Gaia"

Computer vectorial design, ca. 1995

  The planet as a living entity was popularized by J. E. Lovelock in 1979 in his book "Gaia, a new look at life on Earth". At that time though there was a widely spread belief in Mother Earth having a soul and being connected with all living beings dwelling on it. Many ancient cultures had that belief in fact, and the young generations in the 60's and 70's moved near these ancient myths looking for new values to adhere on.

  Synchronicity works in mysterious ways. The idea of our planet as a living body was present in my mind since early 70's, so I wanted to express that extraordinary concept in the first sketch above. Mountains are correlated with the heart-beat pulses below them, while the omni-present sun gives its energy to the whole. The title was decided before Lovelock's book edition.

  Twenty years later I made a computer-aid version (second image), as part of a computer-designed book that will be shown in this blog later on.

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Poliforms

"Poliforms"

Watercolor, washed ink and pen on paper, Dec. 1983

 

 

  One of the few pieces of the 1980-2004 period. I tried to experiment with what I had learned so far, in the idea that painting was already something past and that probably I wouldn't paint any more- I just let me my mind go free in a reverse process: I painted the colors and shades first - then I outlined the shades with a technical pen, the result being something in between abstract expressionism and surrealism.

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Tunguska

"Tunguska"

Watercolor on paper, 30 Dec. 2005

  7:17 am, 30 June 1908, at 60°55′N 101°57′E, you didn't want to be there. A titanic explosion took place just over the ground, destroying everything for many miles around. I tried to imagine ground zero in that very same moment.

  We don't appreciate things we love until we lose them. Changes can happen in a split second... and by then it's too late to do whatever was pending. Don't ever delay saying "I love you" to those you really do love, because you don't know if there will be a better "now" to say it... "Tunguskas" of all kinds can happen in our lives far more often than we think...

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Institution

"Institution"
 

Watercolor on paper, 21 Jan. 2006

  Abstract art, if anything, is how metaphysics look like. How do you paint a business, a family, a government? This is a world made of relationships, qualities and synergies, and visual arts have many elements to play with to reflect them all.

 Here we have a firm that mines natural resources, these represented by the dark mass at the bottom. Through complex sets of processes, administrations and internal flows, the institution provides a new product, a non-existing quality, represented at the top by the blue expansion.



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Alhambra

"Alhambra"

Crayola, watercolor and ballpen, 14 March 2004

  Alhambra is the city/palace/castle where the last of the Spanish Moorish kings lived until 1492, when he surrendered it to the Catholic Kings Fernando and Isabel. That very same year Columbus discovered America on a trip sponsored by the only court in Europe that believed in his vision, these same Catholic Kings. 

  I wanted to symbolize here the transition from Middle Ages into Modern Age, from the Ancient World to a New World, like bubbles of light and time flowing and drifting away, while the Alhambra enjoys a beautiful sunset.

  This little painting is the initial work of my second active period, since I had only made but a few things since 1980. In a sense, this Alhambra symbolizes also the beginning of a new creative cycle.

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The Healing Machine

"The Healing Machine"

Watercolor on paper, 5 May 2007

  The efforts of many modern scientists focus in creating life in their laboratories, build artificial intelligence, in tangling even with the mysteries of consciousness and awareness, concepts for which we don't even have a clear definition yet. However, there's no way we can make a dishwasher think, no matter how big and complex we build it. Conciousness and intelligence belong to a different dimension: the realm of living beings, where bodies are built from within, not from outside.

 It's necessary a quantum leap in our culture as a whole to be on the road to solve those mysteries... We may find at the end that these mysteries are far beyond our reach to solve... However, I can imagine a healing machine...

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