To see Rather than to know. Breaking down your verbal understanding.

 I visited an exhibition with an unexpected Chinese wonderful 16 years .

We popped in by chance in the exhibition Science and the Arts in the Seventeenth Century at the National Gallery. The first painting we saw was very soon deconstructed in our mind, We just make some photos of parts of the painting, we didn’t want to know what’s the story behind the mask, we were  looking just for the forms of some parts of the painting  without labeling them, Sonya pointed me some parts of the painting she was attracted  in particular ,the hands, and ears , I could see the 3D objects in those shapes.

After the exhibition she Dance Latin music, we both dance and I could see the shapes in between and the movement like Giacomo Bala paintings.

The influence of that experience at the National Gallery for Artefact project are the shapes of that hands, and ears, maybe I can cut some patterns and make objects.

These artists interest me because they use recycled materials, intuition is an important part in creating their art ,( the intuition has to sit on the shoulders of the knowledge), they use accidents and mistakes as an opportunity for change direction of what was planed from the beginning of the piece.this way of creating art needs a flexible mind.

I did this collage with the intention of abstracting some shapes from this image and make it into 3D object, another option that i thought for this collage is to mix lino cut with photo etching and could be a 2D object . this has been inspired by the artist Michael Rothenstein i saw at the Victoria and Albert museum .

is a off-cut of wild elm, dried 2 cracked, became the radial pattern of this image, with metal relief plates as its multi-coloured target. Another piece of elm overprinted with jagged lino formed the lower elements. rothenstein recalled how a family picnic against a ” great wall” of off-cut elmboards, prompted him to ‘conspire’ with nature, embedding it in the very process and texture of his prints.

this print made from the artist Michael Rothenstein attracted me for the circular shape in the middle of the paper, i had already in mid the cone of Dante and the hexagons of Borges.

i saw other lino cuts from other artist at Victoria and Albert museum, for me the lino cut itself was an artefact.

the first object I notice when I went to Victoria and Albert Museum was a grotesque bird  ,then I saw the sculpture the rap of the Sabines, Instantly I  travel in time to Italy when my friend was actin the Dante’s poems in the theatre, I like to observe the scenarios we play in live, they remind me  the Divine comedy of Alighieri.

My second starting point of the artefact was the divine comedy, specially the cone where Dante situate the characters depending of the process of their live. I draw a cone with a line and I decide to call the artefact Circular Line.

The seed of Circular Line object which I decide to called it was already planted in the ground. Borges  the writer also will have some influences on the object I’m creating with his book Labyrinth. He is talking about hexagons, and the hexagons with the cone of Dante it can be a 3D object.

There was not personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exit in some hexagon.Borges.

Another influence is Rachel Kneebere  with his artwork of 299 days I saw at the V and A, I could imagine the influence of Rodin with the Gate of Hell.

Domenico gnoli and henry Moore, I admire this two artist for the shapes of their paintings and sculptures, i saw some sculptures at Victoria and Albert museum ( i show on the photos above)that reminds me this two artist.

Paolo Scheggi artist another influence , having the ”circular line ”in mind i saw a fantastic maquet at The Estorick collection .

The process of this collages with Nathan photos and some other magazines I had in the studio is about using what is on my table(I want to limit the palette) from this 2D collages I will extract some shapes and i will make 3 D objects. Im looking for the interaction between the form and colour, i did this collages the first day of the Artefact project with the intention of having another perspective and to find 3D shapes on a flat paper.

Some of this images are made with some of my etchings i left on the table, i cut and reassemble again into a new image, in others i have used Nathan photos, and the last one is made with RA magazine.

Nathan Graves Tuttle gave me a photo the same day of the artifact project was launch, he  took it at Olafur Eliasson exhibition , after the Class, I went to the studio with Nathan photo and having  in mind the artist Michael Landy with his 3d collages ,I add some new elements and delete other of Nathan photo, I was thinking to do a 3D collage , this was my starting point of the artifact.

Nathan photo was full of shadows and lights and I had that leaflet of lee Krasner on my desk opened on a page with a photo with eyes, and airplane.

For me in that occasion the airplane symbolizes the masculinity, like In some photos of Helmut Newton the plane it looks a phallic symbol and the woman represent the opposite energy.

I delete the shadows of Nathan´s photograph. The shadows of fiction, the eyes represent our perception.

The result from the photo is a  2D collage, but the idea is to extract some shapes and make it into 3D object  or installation, that’s why the artist Michael Landy is a big influence. He take some of his drawings or collages and parts of them he does installation or 2D  and 3D sculptures.

I use  chance most of time for the process of making art, whatever is accesible on the table is what I will use, what’s there is there,( I will not add anything else, or make a new colour or new form) I want to limited my palette ,for me is important to have a limited paled  to let the chance play its role. Everything happen for a reason and if at that moment there is lee Krasner photo ,it must be for a reason, I enjoy the unpredictable ,what will happen or what I will do is there at that day, one can miss some good chances been in the mind thinking what’s next or what I will do . Sometimes I make things  happen, I try to combine and balance or unbalance this process, but having in mid that a failure on the artwork can be the best can happen, if you know how to read between the lines and to see between shapes. Many of the good artworks have happened by accident. Take the chance of the accident, that’s a way ensuring not to repeating yourself  in somehow.

some thoughts while we Navigate London.

Thoughts while we navigate London.

It is about movement, the wind is blowing that way the water moving towards as, is making a sound, the stairs its backing us, but if I am correct the pathways it is locked.

The people are moving in different speed but the water is constant.

Is the seagull the answer?

So what is the question?

This is because the circle line is eternal.

Now two seagulls ,that means there is two answers, of what question?

Sometimes there is more than one answer to the question.

Sometimes there is more than one answer to the question.

The idea of the wind being inconsistency but the sky is consistent

We are fascinated about this staircase where people move up and down.

What I like about this staircase, How things going in and out

Monet on the water, Sonia Delaneau on the walls.

This vertical is directional maybe we could do a directional sculpture.

We going on something ,then we go up something, Let’s go to monument.

Soho is quite squidly, the clouds go round the planet, as they  have done for millenniums and we are at Barbican and this is very new. Smells baking bread. Gabs between spaces and time.

Sense of place.

Relationship between the buildings . The drawing is the process of looking. Notion of interpretation. notion of the city. Go to the same place coming from different places.

Back and forward between different medias.

 Alternatives ways to record experience.

Different speeds in the city depending on the time.

Draw a piece of music make a piece of music by drawing.

We will not have new thoughts unless we get unbalance.

Time and tide on the Barbican, time and tide wait for no man.

Sound and smell and textures. How the sound relate the space.

The smell at barbican is water and Westminster smells books.

The hearing becoming visual ,experience of Synaesthesia.

Gatherings in the squares, in the city each area has own hub, own square. All squares are different meeting places. Food, taverns , places which come together people, Breaking the bread. Jesus ,last supper

 She is telling me about Alice in wonderland ,we both liked this book,maybe I will do a painting called. DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE.

A violinist is playing, Chalkie will arrive soon she is texting me about doing an app for the project. I feel excited about all of this this. The violinist is coming near me, he stops playing and starts picking up pieces of paper on the floor and puts them in the bin.The traffic comes to a halt. I can only hear the seagulls.She arrives full of ideas and a beautiful smile.

She keeps telling me we go up something and then we go along something,and Barbara Hepworth  speaks about the idea of looking through and the connection between things.