Blue. Casein paint on wood panel, 12 by 24”. 2021
End of year | Beginning
blurry
foggy
normal
return
two
many
wishes
objectives
none
sing
quiet
space of nothingness and all
blurred
return
two
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normal
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foggy
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years
oh
wishes oh-
goals
many
oh -/add
present
silence
encompassed
Ovals of light playing
in Painting
Ovals, casein on wood panel, 12 by 24 in. 2021
Movements and cycles, colors of colors erased
Light playing
Hand following
Land of Prayers, oil and flat paint on unmounted canvas, 40 by 92 in. 2020
The last weeks have been of a lot of organization, planning and preparation of the studio to receive people for the open studios of Bushwick and the sudden workshop organized thanks to #CityArtistCorps @nyfacurrent @NYCulture
Land
in Painting
I am grateful how everything had magically unfolded. After months of non-stop working in the studio, the possibility of having a workshop coinciding with the Bushwick open studios changed the rhythm of the summer and I had the opportunity to look at the work done.
This is one of the paintings from last year, one of the first Lands of Prayers. It looks to me now as a fundamental work between the ovals evolving in charcoal and the stream works of the year '19. I notice in this painting the intimacy of internal questions that are ravaging me and continue to intensify and focus: the artist as such and what a work of art is and from where arises, All in the silence of prayer.
Cut out transparency
Looking through folders and portfolios I found this cut out transparency. The watermarks are from a clear plastic that I use to protect them until they are ready to be framed.
In reality, the frame of these works is part of an ongoing discussion: how and where.
Some of them, when framed, lose a certain fluidity, especially they lose the shadows and the color changes that they produce when they are crossed by light during the day unless they are located near a source of natural light.
Windows, doors and walls are still the way to go.