Bosques

The work is based on the works carried out by Grace Hertlein (1924-2015), in which you can see several pieces of elements of nature created from primitive figures in gray scale. Operating in a similar way, I managed to compose this work, using iterative structures to draw the lines and some of the other figures, through the use of superimposition and transparency of color, a space is created in which I want to reflect feelings such as sadness or sadness. anguish It is a forest, which, seeing the clearer figures, transmits a certain kindness, but as the gaze is lost in the figures in the background, it becomes more somber. I seek to reflect on our perspective of these feelings. Because learning about every aspect of our existence contributes to our true essence as human beings.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

Through iterative structures, I drew the lines, creating the tree trunks, they are composed of three structures, in which the first draws lines dark, the second draws lighter lines, and the third generates dark lines again but with transparency… When drawing the trees, I remembered a fragment of Simó Mullet Toni’s text: “the visual languages of modernity, collage assemblage and montage”:

the author quotes a film theorist Béla Balázs:

“It is, at the very least, a kind of assemblage. When the editor assembles the separate images into a given series, in such a way that its conception allows to achieve a determined and desired effect, that works like an engine that assembles the various parts of a machine, in such a way that it becomes a productive machine.”

The way in which Béla explains the creation of figures or elements of everyday life from assembled primitive figures that generate that specific form of the image to be recreated. In my case, I formed a forest from lines, arranging them in a series that manages to create the representation of a forest, either from silhouettes of trees like the series, or in In other words, the order of it.

The way the work is generated can be related to the message I seek to convey, that large number of trees that are not identical to each other but are similar, I see it as an analogy to thoughts or the excess of these one after another in series. Browsing the internet I found some of Grace’s writings, one of them says:

“Being able to do this daily is enjoyable and inspiring. “It has been fruitful, significant and renewing.”

In this case he is talking about computers and the technological advancement available for personal use and the ability to make art on devices, and also how that change It positively affects you in your daily life. It is a fragment that almost forces me to talk about Paul Válery, precisely about “The conquest of ubiquity.” The word ‘ubiquity’ represents the ability to be present everywhere at the same time. What is possible thanks to technological advances that are accompanied, obviously, by their negative side. Regarding the latter, Paul, proposes an open perspective on technology: Embrace change and learn to grow and continue to express ourselves through any medium that is presented to us throughout our lives.

Literature

SIMÓ MULET, Toni. (2004). “Los lenguajes visuales de la modernidad collage, assemblage y montaje.”. VALÉRY, Paul. (1928). “La conquista de la ubicuidad”.