Travel Drawing

I use to base a great part of my works in my fondness to old illustrated history books. Playing over these references in my mind, I have generated a series of narrative images approaching the subject of history/travel. Travel is to adventure in new places, without really not knowing what to expect, and history is an adventure in the realm of the future. But travel has nowadays been marketed as fun, and it wasn’t always the case in the past. More of a hazardous exploration, vulnerable to fate and unknowns. The travel of Ulysses, of the book of the Dead, of Dante. Survival journeys. Maybe, somehow, journeys of unwanted changes. Usually they are not individual portraits but depictions of groups, for what interest me is the interaction and the dynamic of the relations between the characters. Most of the works has certain connection with the traveler's feelings of non established, of temporality and maybe ephemerality; either they are small or foldable. As any experience, travel defines you, but your identity is also mutable to some degree; some of the characters wear impersonal masks while other are animal-headed, maybe masked as well; this is a strange world, familiar to some degree, but anyway distant.

Drawing:Ballpoint Pen on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:11.8 W x 11.8 H x 0.4 D in

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