¿A donde querés estar?
In this work I want to expose the directions formed by the simple and abundant lines, as through the three coordinates from which the static lines grow, more lines are generated in different directions, metaphorically representing the choices that each human being can make in their life, generating a great kind of spider web of life in the end. Wanting to revisit what one chooses every day to be where one is. In this work I began by drawing lines that are static from three coordinates of the canvas, I wanted to generate several lines from 3 different points to reflect how a kind of fan unfolds from the same point. These lines are placed in such a space that they do not exceed the size of the canvas because I wanted them to leave enough surface area for more generative lines. Thus, from those same three coordinates these generative lines grow with movement in order to generate an effect of growth, entanglement and/or expansion, like a kind of spider web with the focus on these certain 3 points.
Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development
The aesthetic development was partly inspired by one of Grace Hertlein’s works such as “Seashells” and by the use of the lines of the artist “A. Michael Noll” in his works. I took these two artists as a reference for inspiration of the work, my objective was not to try to reproduce their same works as “sea shells” but to take it as a starting point. I wanted to inspire a part of the work in how these artists, through lines, generate concrete or abstract structures within the artistic freedom that is constantly transformed along with art techniques, as mentioned in “The Conquest of Ubiquity”, “We must hope that such great innovations will transform the entire technique of the arts and in this way act on the process of invention itself, perhaps prodigiously modifying the very idea of art” “The Conquest of Ubiquity” (page 131) Just as it says Here, through this continuous process of transformation, a new invention of the concept or convention of the aesthetics of a work defined as a “work” is generated and this same can be reflected in a generative work, where we can observe how “the beautiful” can be this concept of generative image as it says in the text of “Redefinition of artistic practices” by José Luis Brea “1.The slide of the visual signifier towards the territory of the image movement and the consequent growing obsolescence of the specialized devices for organizing the reception of the modes of expectation(…)” (page 108) then through a new method it leaves us expectant that a new creation will be created and discarded in cycles. Maybe that’s what an art form of this generation is about, in some ways beautiful but obsolete, mass use and discarding.
From a metaphorical sense, every day we choose a direction for our life, an artistic direction for example. Each day can be seen as a line by which we are guided by its coordinates, the artistic pulse of the introduction of each coordinate leads us to choose what is going to be done during this day and perhaps one does not even imagine that this is contributing to our great life. That is why I want to reflect how each day you can choose different directions to choose how you want the day, the week, the month, the year, life in short… which together forms a great kind of spiral web that we can call life choice. All this leads me to ask: “Where do you want to be?” This work is visually loaded with these generative lines, I modified some values and I found this type of spider web, in which I think it best reflects how after making certain choices, both technical in a job and in life (in a kind of analogy), we end up getting entangled in this web of decisions that lacks a “good” or “bad”, but simply develops based on what one is doing through conscious or unconscious choice.
Literature
VALÉRY, Paul. (1928). La conquista de la ubicuidad
BREA, José Luis-LSA47. (2008). Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas s21.pdf