El deseo a la hora de tomar decisiones.

I maintain that our decisions are highly influenced by our emotional states, even those decisions of a daily nature, using this precise moment in which you are reading this story as an example. It is irrefutable as well as quite obvious that we find ourselves here as a result of a set of decisions made during the day, or even a series of decisions made in our life (if we allow ourselves to extend this idea to such an extent).

But I do not want to divert the purpose of the text to the study of the reasons for our decisions, but rather use this instance to remember and celebrate the connection with our desires when making a decision, which often manifests itself automatically through the unconscious.

I consider that this work is deeply influenced by the surrealist avant-garde movement of the 20th century. I would like to reinforce this idea by quoting José Luis Brea in the “Redefinition of artistic practices (s. 21)” within his Book: The third threshold. Where he wrote, together with a group of artists, the following: “For more than one reason we should compare the work of art to that of dreams…”, they also affirm that “…the work of dreams expresses an economy of forces, a tension of energies, …”.

In this static image I seek to represent a butterfly outside a structure designed as a kind of cage. The fact that the image does not generate variations is still part of the process of the work.

I would like the location of the butterfly to be understood as a result of the ability to choose, and if it is possible that it is related in some personal aspect. If you had the possibility of experiencing the next action that butterfly performs, what decision would you make next regarding the desire?

The technical and aesthetic characteristics for the creation of this image: regarding the pregnant figure of the work where I try to represent a butterfly with fine lines and high contrast, inspired by the reference Grace Hertlein and her ability to create visual textures of that style. And regarding the structure behind it, which would represent a cage with an opening in the lower right corner, it is an imitation of a work by the artist Ode Bertrand.