Pincho (Edition 1/15) Photograph

Portrait of illustrator Pincho Replicant repair station - Alaior - 2012 High-resolution image on top-quality Fuji photographic paper covered by a 3 mm methacrylate sheet with a dibond back frame, ready to hang. Each copy is numbered and signed on the back by hand. Limited edition of 15 with certificate of authenticity numbered and signed. Pincho is a Spanish illustrator and street artist from Madrid living in Menorca. Besides making murals, he also works as a freelance for leftie online newspapers making commissioned drawings to illustrate articles. One of these commissions was a portrait of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, author of the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which served as the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner. In this illustrator, the writer is depicted as a disassembled replicant going through maintenance. When I asked Pincho what he would like to do for his symbiosis, he told me he wanted to use this portrait as a reference and asked me if I could transform him into a disassembled replicant going through maintenance. So that is exactly what we did. We painted a piece of cardboard white and I took pictures of him laying down on it with the invaluable help of our friend Pol Marban. This portrait represents the necessary introspection we should go through to truly know ourselves. At some point we should allow ourselves a moment to totally turn off the external environment and calm our thoughts to devote some time to our inner world, to deconstruct the artificial image of the self we have constructed over the years. To unlearn the limiting beliefs others, or us, imposed on ourselves. As we saw with Pantone, we are not our appearance, we are not our personality. As we learned with Smithe, we are not just physical, because matter is mostly empty. If we are always analyzing the external world and listening to our rational brain thoughts, we never give ourselves the chance of listening to anything else, as we are always engaged in a constant monologue, focusing our attention in our own brain. Only through moments of disconnection and meditation we will be able to really understand and change our habits and ideas by examining our thoughts from the outside, watching them as an observer instead of letting them control our emotions. On the bottom left corner of the portrait there are two illustrations by Pincho with the text “Left is new right” and “War is new peace.” Pincho is very critical and sharp with the political system and the mass media, these illustrations represent the capacity of really changing our perception of the world when we stop defining our reality by what others tell us or what we see on television, and start thinking for ourselves. When we find the strength to break the preconceptions installed in our mind through education and media. When we start questioning things like if the supposedly left-wing politicians we have always voted for are actually working for the greater good or just following the plans of the elite and the big corporations who pay their campaigns to defend the status quo. When we finally see the illusion of change they have created to make us think the only power we have to change the world is to put a piece of paper inside a ballot box every four years. All change starts within you. If you want to change the world, change yourself. The only way of changing reality is modifying the way you see it, as you construct reality in your mind. You have a power much greater than choosing a political party when the day of the elections arrives. Thinking that only others with powers can change the world is what makes you not fight for changing it yourself. Democracy is one of the biggest illusions of modern times. But how can we quiet our thoughts to achieve this meditative state which allows us to observe our own brain and change our minds? Many people believe that meditating is about forcing the mind to go blank, but the mind is always active, either thinking or visualizing. Even when we are sleeping our brain is working. Actually, according to some recent research, our brain works optimally during some phases of the dreaming state, a lot better than while we are awake. During these deep-sleep phases our brain heals many of the damage done during the day. So the best way of meditating is not to empty our minds, but to focus on our breathing. And here comes a statement that could be shocking for some people: We breathe wrong. Again, we can use our sleeping state as an example, as we know our body actually works better while we are asleep. I’m sure you must have heard someone snoring. Have you realized the breathing pace of a snoring person is slower than our normal breathing pace while awake? If we heard someone snoring at the speed of an awaken person breathing we would think they are on the brink of some anxious breakdown. We would genuinely worry about them. Weel, this is the way we breathe during the day, as if we were in a state of constant emergency. We should breathe at a slower pace, as we do when sleeping. Just by lying down and relaxing you breathing you will start feeling more relaxed. You will see that your problems don’t seem to be so serious and, after a while, you will enter a state of deep relaxation. This is the first step in the art of meditation, forget about leaving your mind blank, just learn how to breathe properly.

Photography:Digital on Other

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:15

Size:29.5 W x 22 H x 0.4 D in

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