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When I am in front of the blank canvas, I never know what is going to come out, because I have found that the image keeps appearing, as if it had always been there.
This happens, I suppose, because a synthesis is achieved on a mental level, sometimes it doesn't appear easily. This whole experience that I live day by day with my paintings has been developing since I stopped copying.
In the years 1980 to 2000, I found in photography an ally, photoshop was a resource for quick sketching, from there, to move on to the canvas, although it wasn't a manual task, because you always have to adapt the photographic to the pictorial, it was quite similar. You come to depend on these resources.
I suspect that I broke with this dependence when I took up drawing again, a few years later. Drawing frees the mind.
Then I concentrated on the materials, as if they were barely known, I began to use them in another way, on the graphic and pictorial expression that these tools, be they brushes or paintbrushes, inks, acrylics or whatever, have to give, to propose. I entered the stage of the non-figurative, non-literary, non-advertising, just painting.
Maybe it's been a few years, a few years, but I don't copy, I don't figure, I just follow the luck that I want to express itself on my canvases. I understand more about painting in this way, fortunately I have seen a lot of work of artists celebrated by the history of art; the most important thing that their works transmitted to me is the independence of norms, advices, rules and conditions.
The longing of the great artists to become children in their work is much talked about, I have been a teacher of children and I have learned with them to let go. That's what my current painting has, a kind of absence of pretensions, it just wants to be that, painting. It is neither intuitive nor naïve, nothing like that, once it appears you have to use everything you have learnt to make it look as authentic as possible. You have to work at it.