Rebeca Calvo

In painting I find my silence. We all need to silence our minds now and then, we need the quiet that allows us to really listen. To me, shapes and colors talk, they have music, they have smell and touch. I need to cancel the noise to really listen to nature, to people and to life.
It is by quietly looking at people's small gestures, a face expression, or the fallen tree covered in fungus, or the infinite blue of a clear sky and through the process of replicating these images with the colors on a canvas that I can find silence... and listen.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. [Ram Dass]

The first half of my life I searched for answers, and knowledge, and control. We want to know, we want science to explain us everything. I guess this is where my background in furnishing makes sense: it gave me the control over a small environment, in which I could create comfort and safety. Until one day, I came to realize that is the not knowing, the mysteries, and the acceptance that some things are out of our comprehension that makes us really humans, that drive us, that feeds our imagination and our will.
I keep wondering what is death, and what is life. Why is life so determined? How did it all started? Why do we feel? Do plan...

BA in Fine Arts & MA in Design,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Collective
T.H.I.S @ The Barret Art Center, 2014
www.barretartcenter.com