My practice emerges from the understanding of Painting as a mystical being in whom science and magic coincide. Painting transcends the studio and the canvas, embodying constant change and transformation. Together, we explore the limits between dreams and wakefulness, between closeness and remoteness. We engage in a continuous dialogue that echoes my relationship with my surroundings.
My work is currently grounded in fique, a fabric cultivated, dried, combed, spun and woven in the Colombian Andes, the place where my navel is sowed. Fique, traditionally used to transport grains and food, has an open, heavy and thick weave that allows Painting to breathe and manifest herself rebelliously. I view it as a material condemned to an endless transit that mirrors my own dislocation from what was home. Fique carries memory, it holds the stories of what it touches. Using the material, means that the work is more than image. I create hybrid objects, patchworks of painted fabric sewn together, existing between painting and tapestry.
I collect fragments of my lived experience that come together on the surface of the fique; they form a voracious amalgam, drenched with meanings, symbols, fantasies, daydreams and auto-fiction. I aspire to find a non-verbal metaphorical way to understand and decipher the systems and connections that exist in the experience of being alive and surrounded by life.
I see my surroundings as metaphors for my internal states, reflections of the depths of my most profound self. Through what I call the poetics of nothing, the beauty of emptiness, I explore the ground beneath my feet, wherever I may stand.