Brief

2009-2011

Statement

In BRIEF, my most recent evolution in representing the figure, I focus on the brevity and fragility of human  existence.

The contemplation of personal loss led me to confront profound questions: is there meaning to our existence, or is it absurd?

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Statement

In BRIEF, my most recent evolution in representing the figure, I focus on the brevity and fragility of human existence.
The contemplation of personal loss led me to confront profound questions: is there meaning to our existence, or is it absurd? Here, the figures, while readily defined, become more fragile, transient and lyrical, nearly dissolving into a timeless space. To create this vanishing effect, I depict the figure at different levels of description, where the less defined part of the rendition looks somehow pixilated. It is my way of expressing loss of description, fading away, in this digital age. So, I am not only using form to describe the concept of the ephemeral but to reflect the times in which we live, where the virtual is almost becoming reality and where more and more “quickly” is the way in which we encounter things. The natural resolution of my style as a digitalized pattern reflects the stylistic vertical and horizontal traits of my own calligraphy. All expressed in a lyrical way, because it is my essence, at times I like to include foreign elements in the composition (i.e. Roosters; or a sharp horizon line) like noise disrupting the lyrical harmony, an expression of the absurd. It is also my way of generating compositional balance and contrast to the figure, both formally and conceptually.
And this is not just a way of looking but a reminder that time is of the essence and that we should appreciate and revel in the present because we are not here forever.

En BREVE, mi evolución más reciente representando la figura, me enfoco en la brevedad y fragilidad de la existencia
humana. La pérdida reciente de la vida de algunos de los mios, me llevó a confrontar la cuestión eterna y profunda sobre el significado (o lo absurdo) de nuestra existencia, algo que nos hemos venido preguntando desde las civilizaciones más antiguas. Expreso estas preguntas de forma pictórica, mediante la representación de la figura solitaria y desnuda,
desvaneciendose en un espacio revelador fuera del tiempo. En la búsqueda de una síntesis de lo mental, lo emocional y lo sensual, intento describir el sujeto de una manera más fluida: con un fuerte sentido de los valores y un rango de colores reducido, toques ligeros que clarifican la emergencia (o desaparición) de una presencia espiritual.
Todo expresado de forma lírica, porque esa es mi esencia, en ciertos momentos, me gusta incluir elementos extraños
a la composición (p.ej. gallos o lagartijas), como un ruido que perturba la armonía, en definitiva, una expesión de lo
Absurdo. El tiempo es invalorable; debido a ello, últimamente me gusta apreciar y regocijarme en el presente…