I try to approach painting as poetry: suggest instead of showing. It means the meaning of the reading or visual interpretation is plural.
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The one that feels honest and make an impact immediately on the viewer. The first reaction should be the sensation that a feeling -or multiple ones, for that matter-, was moving all over the canvas during the creation, until everything fall into place with the complete work. Should be visually hypnotic where you try to solve the visual puzzle of a powerful feeling finally expressed. Poetry helps me to try to translate and transform my emotions into visual experiences.
Where do you find inspiration?In everything, and my mind is the most important tool to star to create mental images of a tree on the canvas while I am walking, or to start to visualize lines, angles, circles...in the cloudy sky. Life itself, existence itself is a constant fountain of images and possibilities. In an specific way, Poetry, Vang Gogh and Impressionism, Pollock, Dali, Picasso... Music is another place that I go: Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Mozart and Bethoven, Dylan. Anything can be a trigger to create.
What would you do with $25,000?I don't know for sure.
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