SKIN
My
journey as an artist has been since the beginning a journey into
existence: Through the exploration of landscapes I have gone deep
into my own roots.
A curiosity to know wild places and a drive for adventure took
me into the forests and rivers of South America. The travel became
a permanent experience when I built a cabin in the Amazon jungle
and submerged myself into the wild flow of tropical life. There,
beyond the endless sound of the creatures of the forest, I started
to listen to the whisper of the land. My senses, my body, my existence,
tuned to the beat of the earth.
Growth and transformation, sedimentation and erosion: the flow
of matter and time is the carver of places, creatures and things,
as well as my dialog with nature. Log books, codex and maps, made
of Amazonian tree bark, hand made papers, parchment and leather,are
navigation devises, wordless chronicles of the journey. Cartography
of the ephemeral and the eternal, they speak of silence and void,
of time and transience.
Skin is about fragility as a primary feature of living matter.
It's about the living earth, the thin tissue of life that grows
from mineral, air, water and light. Is about its fragility and
endurance, a metaphor of our own individual existences.
It's about the endless flow of life, a single organism in constant
metamorphosis.
It's
about our sacred dialogue with the landscape and its beings: it's
about the transformation of nature into culture, and in doing
so, the recognition of our origins.
And
it's about lightness, the state of being that has the same substance
of dreams.
