What's in a "feeling"?
2022
In this series, I focus on the body-mind relationship:
what I feel, and what I "think" I feel.
Pink relates to the sensed feeling.
And black and grey, to thoughts.
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The Wall
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite and pastel) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
25 x 25 cm
Sensing vs thinking
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More is More
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
25 x 25 cm
Stimuli galore sparking the mind in Barcelona.
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Emergence
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
25 x 25 cm
How much do I know besides my own inner song?
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Untamed
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
50 x 50 cm
Messy emotions trying to fit within the grey matter
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Neverland
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
50 x 70 cm
"Neverland" comes from the notion that "the map is not the territory". Ideas of the world are just ideas... nodes in the mental map with which I try to make sense of the world around me.
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Hummock.
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
This is a diptych, two pieces of 31x44 cm each.
“I don’t think I’m even seeing the tip of the iceberg...”, it came to my mind as I draw “Hummock”.
And apparently, we are conscious of only about 5% of our mental activity, so most of our decisions, emotions, and behaviour depend on the 95% that is unconscious...
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Puzzle Mind
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
50 x 40 cm
This artwork represents different sensations, pleasant and unpleasant, experienced in a short span of time. With the attention jumping from one to another, there is a sense of fragmentation. Drawing brings the experience to the conscious plane and connects the pieces.
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Projectile
2022
What's in a "feeling"? series
Mixed Media (graphite, pastels, coloured pencils, and markers) on paper. Finished with a fixative spray.
60 x 44 cm
My idle mind is like a projectile of uncertainties
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INSPIRATION
While each individual is unique, I believe we all share a basic way of “functioning” and that self-observation is key to understanding our nature. Quoting Terence, “I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me” (Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto. — Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Heauton Timorumenos, Act 1, scene 1, line 77)
Transparency and spontaneity are key, so rather than planning the work, I set my mind in witnessing mode, and create intuitively. I “download my mind” onto a visual diary, which I then use to select and reject what I will trespass into a bigger format.
As the artwork progresses, it reveals a moment in a story that has no beginning and no end, as it is the stream of continuity of mental activity (mind, awareness). So the works show parts of a bigger picture.
As it draws from my mind (either conscious or unconscious), it's representational but nonobjective and nonfigurative, so I class it as abstract surrealism.