Stones in the mist that look like heads
Ageless in the raw series #5
SKU 975
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions 170 x 120cm
This painting depicts a natural phenomenon that occurs in certain places, where massive white stones roll down from the tops of cliffs and settle in flatter places, emerging in the landscape as jarring elements not only because of their shape but also because of their color. The representation of these stones is the result of a recurring observation of this phenomenon that the artist has made over more than a decade in the region where he has held artistic residencies in recent years.
There is a vital force in nature that is specific to each location, this energy leaves a mark on the landscape that differs from place to place and which is difficult to specify in detail but which as a whole becomes recognizable and which we come to identify as “that place”. This matrix becomes a symbol when it comes to characterizing the landscape and has to do with the organization of reality, with the textures and colors, with the relative position of each thing, with the specificities of the elements, the smells, the brightness of the surfaces, the roughness of the ground and the color of the sky. The symbols that interested me in “Ageless in the Raw” were for me the representation of primordial elements such as air, fire, earth and water. Wherever I looked, I found them in several versions and different forms, with an immense plasticity and representing a disturbing and at the same time fascinating fact - everything that existed was composed of basic elements grouped in a certain way that evolved - from In a very simplistic way, this cosmic dynamic defined the motif and contours of my aesthetic interest - the internal pulse of the landscape - it was a scenario that was basically in a process of change, with roots in the distant past and that would possibly remain, even until after the human race disappeared from the face of the Earth.
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