 works words photos contact | Artist StatementWhen I do my artwork all the gestures I make are completely spontaneous. I do not contemplate the image as much. I am more focused on my body. From my body I feel an impulse that directs me. I try to relax and balance myself so I can let it come fully. I never know where the brush will go. I make my compositions based on knowing how the gestures usually pile up, not on the form of the gestures themselves. I also like to make brushes and pens from natural and found objects adding their particular mark to the composition. Found and natural substances and surfaces also interest me. I want to discover what their use can represent in a completely spontaneous and direct manner of working. I think about the relationship between the impulse and the objects I make. I do not consider that one is necessarily the reason for the other. The internal experience, the application of material and the physical results are a complete whole. The discovery of this impulse was a surprise to me. I never had a desire to draw in an automatic way. And the sensation of doing it is unlike any other I have had. But my curiosity about what I may discover in doing it compels me to continue.
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