Acercate

Sometimes the only way out of the disorder of our own thoughts, which we find difficult to silence, is to abandon the feeling of omnipotence that encloses us within ourselves, and encourage ourselves to ask someone else to come and rescue us. The work is that, a request for the viewer to come closer and help calm what seems uncontrollable.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

This work is inspired by three authors: Ben F. Laposky, A. Michael Noll and Nicolas Buffarini. The first two were pioneers in electronic art. The third is a UNA student. Through Buffarini’s work “Ansiedad”, I was able to find a way to graphically represent the disruption that sometimes comes from locking ourselves up with our own thoughts and fears. To represent this sensation, I took the work “Gaussian-Quadratic” by A. Michael Noll, with which from the place of spectator, I cannot help but feel uncomfortable in the face of the lack of symmetry or meaning presented by the pattern of lines, the result of his experiments with computer image generation. On the other hand, take Ben F. Laposky’s “Oscillons” (more particularly “Oscillon 40”) as a counter to this sensation. It is through the warmth that the harmony of its static movements generated in me that I wanted to represent calm. The viewer of the work is the key element for it to be complete. Only through their interaction, responding to the request that it makes from the title, can this uncontrollable figure be tamed and converted into a more harmonious balance.

If this work exclaims “Come closer” it is because during its development I was able to register that without the rescue of another it would be much more difficult for me to find, in turbulent contexts, the calm necessary to pour an idea onto a digital canvas. I can affirm that through this production I was able to understand a little more how to deal with myself. So although, as I mentioned before, this work is the product of the productions of Laposky, Noll and Buffarini, I also pour into it the experience that it has given me, because as José Luis Brea describes in Redefinition of artistic practices (2008), “the work itself, the activity that concretizes it, is actually what produces us”, sometimes through the work of others, sometimes through one’s own work.

Literature

BREA, José Luis. (2008) “Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas” en El tercer umbral. Murcia: CENDEAC, pp. 106-113.