Serie ideographic paintings/mixed media on canvas 40 x 58
The ideographic paintings
Ideographic applies specifically to that mode of writing which by means of symbols, figures, or hieroglyphics suggests the idea of an object without expressing its name.
I begin to work the canvas as if I was facing the wall of a cave of wet clay washed by time, with a primitive need to feel what I touch, mixing the paint directly on the canvas with cement, sand, plaster, pieces of burlap painted scraps of unfinished paintings, sewn to the fabric or between them, leaving the spaces to be used as reliefs or edges, to create almost like a rocky support for work.
On the surface, I start to gravel with burin and spatula, anthropological symbology, signs of cosmology, circles within circles, abstract signs with which I intend to communicate conceptual but not narrative facts, I superimpose the signs, one on top of the other, finger marks, points of Star, time in time.
On this abandoned wall surface, I write words, phrases, poems, one on top of the other, layers of writing that I later remove, erase with water and turpentine, words that are no longer words, dripping between paint and canvas, only traces of what they were, fingers scratching and dragging paint and matter, undoing what was done, destroying the word to rebuild the symbol.
It is for me a process of trying to penetrate the inaccessible and understand the incomprehensible, it is no longer a canvas, it is a reality, where I try to connect with that underground world of our Paleolithic ancestors that I learned to love in my youth in Asturias.