on materials

PAPER is essential. It is the first medium on which original ideas are placed; its physical quality and inmediacy are important to graphic development. The paper is empty, is calling for information. It is a void surface that does not expect, but is always ready for absorbing; it is a mirror for the brain. Our body is the first barrier between the world and us. It is the first wall, the individual unit’s container, and skin is the border where the “I” is contained.

FABRICs are veils in between persons, are conventional structures of a determined geographic location; they are our public image, our first-aid box, our intimacy and security methods. It is through fabrics that private and public image is conveyed. The physical wall of architectonic space allows urban space to exist, and it is there where individuals present themselves to society. It is exactly the place where I am willing to present myself as an artist, not just in the confined terms of gallery spaces, where art already ended to become “completed”. The presented piece does represent the original piece of art (the idea), but becomes officially what it already was, ever since the translation of the original idea started.

METAL, is the connector, the bidirectional linking process. It is union between pieces, is the everywhere needed material, with malleable and persistent structure. It is woven tightly through the urban space: fences, benches, drain-covers, streetlights, … Metal is, in conjunction with concrete, what the city (indoors/outdoors) is basically made of.