Attracted by painting on raw canvas. I discovered their versatility from rough to a transparent state. Letting the frame be seen through the canvas and be part of the composition as a reference to x-ray images.
I paint with oils, the fabrics have humidity and areas that seem to perspire.
In my painting, I represent microscopic worlds. Most of the images I use are abstractions of microorganisms, of different sizes, that inhabit this “watery” of pigments and oil.
Other themes that could be recognized in my pain- ting are X-ray bodies, blood or tear fluids, explosions, arteries, veins, capillaries, etc. Many of them are represented through lines and dots that I draw using lead pencils and black ink markers.
Besides the “worlds” description above, there are also chalk grids I draw on fabrics, sometimes regular, others irregular.
The grid’s construction is developed in two ways: the first is through drawing, dividing the edge of the pain- ting into segments of 5.0 and 0.5 cm, this with the help of drawing instruments: pencil and ruler. In the second, I use the grid described before but reinforcing it and highlighting it with a chalkboard, (a tool from architecture and construction), which allows me
to draw straight lines between two distant points. The grids, in some cases act as a support for an organism in suspension, in others they serve as a geo-topographic reference of the microorganisms on the fabric.
The rigidity of the grids previously described and the oils that generate humidity and areas that seem to perspire, are some of the conflicts present in my work.
On the other hand, in my painting, some areas of the canvas remain uninterrupted, which suggests a certain incompleteness, compared to the way I construct the chalk grids.
Another tension or conflict in my work is the oil stains versus my images that seem abstractions of microorganisms inhabiting this “wateriness” of pigments and oil. On the one hand, there is the figurative versus the non-figurative or the presented (material-painting) versus the re-presented (imagined worlds).
