2012 - 8

Artistic creation is not only and exclusu¡ively supported by a mental and technical process. There are other elements that, consciously or unconsciously, the artist uses to access the creational fact. It is clear that all the knowledge acquired by the artist during all his or her years, working and studying, takes a very important value in this process.

If someone asks me to explain the sensitive process that generated these eight works, I can answer two very different things from each other. I can simply say that I do not know and with such an answer nobody thinks that I’m mentally sick. Also, of course, I can explain a whole lot of reasonings, always random and generally technical, which determine these paintings. In other words, in art nothing is absolute. Not even the knowledge that the artist himself may have is absolute.

At the beginning of the process, these mixed media on paper works were created by sensory impulses not controlled by the mind. With charcoal and fast movements of the hand, small spaces were created, usually closed, wanting that the shapes had a heavy load of imagination and that, at the same time, they keep a balance and unity between them.

Later, with acrylic colors and/or watercolors, all of them very liquid, the backgrounds and touches of colors were worked in the same way. On top of these colors and before they dried, lacquered gum dissolved with alcohol has been mixed in such a way that the colors took a semi-golden tone. In order to get a lack of opacity of the colors that should be placed on top of the first ones, with a final varnish pictures matt was sprayed to unify the flat surfaces of the colors.

The process continued and the fact of having a non-absorbent surface thanks to the varnished picture, the white color placed on top of the forms took the touch called spit. Finally, with Chinese ink, worked with a cane, were highlighting all of the forms created originally with the charcoal. The finishing of the surfaces were worked again with matt varnish in order to unify the saturation of all the colors.

The number of works of this series was determined by the need of the painter to generate more or less works with these features. It is so that at the beginning there is a researching process, which, little by little is consolidated with forms and techniques that the artist considered to be acceptable. At this point, the artist, not wanting to repeat systematically more works, considers the series to be finished and abandons it.

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