México 2018 Print

The work is part of my soul self portrait series. Painted according to my own painting process, patented at the German Patent Office under the Number: DE 10 2018 003 498 A1 – Maltechnik In a constant experience of Feelings due Life itself, my soul gets through a veritable transformation. This transformation is reflected in a sort of external process of applying layers of painting (experienced feelings), first over the plain canvas (my soul), and then over and over the existing layers (experiences and interactions with the outside world). After a while during the painting process, and due to a kind of psychological analysis performed by scraping, sanding or attacking the canvas or paper with manual or electrical abrasive tools, the canvas becomes an image and representation of my soul. So, I "work out" my everyday experiences through the canvas, obtaining a bidimensional picture of myself, with a third time-dimension included in the "z Axis", representing the time layers. The transparencies and scars resulting of experiencing life and working it out, represents myself at the end of the painting process... in other words, a soul self portrait. In this special case, I had the feeling of being back to Mexico...