I was born in Mexico City of Andalucian father and Basque mother.
I have been doing etchings, tapestry, jewelry, acrylics and illustration
since 1972. After a number of collective exhibitions and a few one person
shows, this is the first time that I present myself with such intimate and
profound feelings.
I have never experienced such intense emotions in showing my work. With
this body of work I close a cycle in my life. What I show here today, started
more than two years ago with the idea to make a children's book on the computer.
The idea was to produce it in reverse order to what is traditionally done.
Instead of getting a text that I would then illustrate, I would give the
writer the images for her to write a text to. |
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Towards that end, the people I chose to appear in my pictures, where my
father and my uncle.
My father passed away shortly after we finished the first set of images,
and I stopped working for some time after that.
Upon returning to this body of work personal reasons drove the work in another
direction, and it was far from even resembling a children's book. So I abandoned
that idea, and let the work take over as I allowed my feelings to flow freely
through the images I was creating. I felt good in doing so, as it was my
way of dealing with the loss of my father and coming to terms with his death.
In this way I lived my mourning. |
