‘One leaf has the ability to reflect the diversity of nature, to focus our attention on the ordinary and to transport us to the extraordinary, to reawaken a sense of wonder in the everyday’
— Andy Goldsworthy
Un-titled, 2019, 48 X 50 cm, etching
Wild Flower, 59 X 34.5 cm, etching
Un-titled, 2019, 20 X 20 cm, etching
Un-titled, 2019, 20 X 20 cm, etching
Autumn, 2020, 28 X 28 cm, etching
Working with fragments from the natural world allows me to connect with my roots. Sometime being away from your birth country makes it easier to understand your own identity and the reason behind your work, and produce a link with home not as a physical place but as a state of mind: “how does one glean a sense of nature as a home or origin when it remains foreign?” (Oerlemans, 2002)
My little black heart, 2019, 49 X 49 cm, mix media
Two coin face, 2019, 56 X 76 cm, Mix media
One of my aim of my practice is the combination of different processes. I found that by merging all these techniques together I can express hidden feelings in a very distinctive way. The powerful blue cyan from the cyanotype brings a feeling of serenity into the artwork, complementing and lifting every process involved in its creation.
HOPE, 2019, 56 X 76 cm, Mix Media
During Lockdown, our daily lives changed so was our emotions. I am working in a series of images that represent the feeling of not being able to go outside as we normally do. Once again, I use Nature as a vehicle of inspiration for textures and colours. It is called Trapped and it is formed for 4 different body images in large format combined with some projections about Covid-19 worldwide cases.
Trapped I, 2020, 60 X 30 cm, collagraph
Trapped II, 2020, 60 X 30 cm, collagraph
Trapped III, 2020, 60 X 30 cm, collagraph
Trapped IV, 2020, 60 X 30 cm, collagraph
Post-Memory, the relationship of the second generation to powerful, often traumatic, experiences that preceded their births. Role of the family as a space of transmission and the function of gender as an idiom of remembrance
— Hirsch, M, 2008, The generation of post-memory. Poetics Today 29
My grandfather was a republican soldier in the Spanish Civil War. His memories and poems about life and war, create a strong emotional link with my roots as it makes me identify my life experience with his: leaving the comfort of home to go to another city searching for a better future is not easy but it must be more difficult to return to start from scratch. My project Post-Memory is a tribute to him and all people who are part of that historical event in any way; the generation who fought during the war and built up my country again afterwards. The second part of the project is about the place where I grow up. I have chosen botanical elements to link with each season of the year and childhood memories.
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, relief mono print
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, photo etching
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, photo etching
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, photo etching
Post-Memory, 2020, 46 X 19 cm, photo etching
Post-memory: 1 leaf = 1 person = 1 generation.
After the Civil War (1936-1939), Spain struggled both to feed its people and to find the courage to build the country up again. Repression and fear infiltrated every household and instead of learning how to read and write children learnt only how to work on the land. This generation is known as ‘The Generation of Sorrow’ because of their suffering and endurance. They are our “fallen soldiers” during the war against Cov-19. They died alone without being able to say goodbye to their families. Once again they have sacrificed themselves for their country because younger people have been prioritised for medical resources. My book is a tribute to them. Every page contains a leaf drawing in memory of a person who lost the battle against coronavirus, and a blank page is a metaphor for the loss of a generation. A post-war testimony declared:
No olvidar. No debemos dejar la historia en el olvido. Olvidar es enterrar definitivamente a quienes tanto dieron y tanto sufrieron.No olvidar, para recordar siempre.
Do not forget. We must not forget history. Forgetting is burying forever those who gave so much and suffered so much for our country. Do not forget, to always remember.
I cannot forget. Can you?