Drawing, 2009
‘Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.’
Douglas Adams in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
New drawings of found images of beached whales, shipwrecks and other scenes at sea. The subjects are floating against the flatness of the blank paper as if incomplete fragments of a dream or a half remember story. Allocating some references to childhood tales and science fiction, this work is a continuation of my interest in notions of distance and dislocation and the role of images to determine our individual sense of identity and place.
Balloons, pencil on paper 50 x 60 cm
Whale and Baobab, pencil on paper, 50 x 60 cm
Adrift, pencil on paper, 20 x 15 cm (paper)
Ship-Planet, pencil on paper, 20 x 15 cm (paper)
Sperm whale, pencil on paper, 20 x 15 cm (paper)
Women Waving, pencil on paper, 20 x 15 cm (paper)
Penguins, pencil on paper, 21 x 29 cm (paper)
1894.- Second Beach, A Beached Sperm Whale, mixed on postcard
(Special work for project ‘Bahía Común’)
Serie de dibujos a partir de imagenes encontradas de balenas varadas, naufragios y otras escenas en el mar. Los sujetos estan flotando en el vacío del papel, como fragmentos incompletos de un sueño o una historia a medio recordar. Este trabajo es una continuación de mi interés el los conceptos de distancia y permutación y el papel de las imágenes para determinar nuestro sentido individual del tiempo y el espacio.