The process of Transformation
Transformation
Transformation was a project developed during 3 months and executed on a smooth, white canvas that measures 118" x 130" (3 x 3.30 m.) in which, at the beginning, I inscribed the work’s title.
I then gradually loaded the canvas with multiple techniques and materials that covered the title and darkened the canvas until I achieved severe and coarse textures.
The painting was then gradually lightened with layers of softer materials until the surface was flattened in certain parts where cuts and perforations revealed the hidden stratus.
A wide range of materials were used, including acrylics and oils, basic construction materials, paper, cloth and miscellaneous objects, which constitute the work’s final homogeneity.
Then I cut the painting. Due to the heavy and harsh textures electric saws, chisels and garden scissors had been used.
The decomposition of its visual unity gave birth to twenty nine smaller works which, due to their new contact in the space, return to life in their own visual individuality.
Transformation Etchings
This serie is composed of 40 etchings measuring 12 x 18 inches each (30 x 45 cm), all of which follow the purpose of a gradient accumulation of data and its own transformation into another graphic status.
All of these processes were registered on the same plate of zinc that received more and more information each time becoming a witness of my changing mind.
I decided to develop this project by analyzing several marks and signs using a variety of traditional and non-traditional tools and through intervention with chemical solutions.
The media in its vigor took advantage of my plans and transformed a speculative investigation into an authentic experience. My attention was caught and engaged by the importance of the marks and signs that the art of etching brings out in their own purity.
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