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Personally, I have no trouble getting ideas for art. My trouble comes when trying to discern between good and bad ideas! Here is roughly the process I follow:
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The railroad series was born out of a choice I had to
make: stay as an art student, or take a "paying" job. The first in the
series is a self portrait laying on the railroad tracks undounted by the
decision, perhaps waiting for an answer; from there, a daydream? a deathwish?
maybe I just fell asleep in the warm April sun... ...the railroad becomes a river, another world, there's a guardian of the world, fishing in the river...I can swim and fly and kayak down the river-railroad...sink into its pebbly waters... Then I awake? The guardian ejects me!? Back to reality, and a decision. |
| What's with the rats? This
series surely lives in the minds of everyone that works in the "rat race."
The working environment brings out the "rat" in people; we become cunning
and self-serving, rushed and sinfully cruel to others, yet blinded to
the transformation by our own need to survive. Rats are fascinating animals, they survive in environments where nothing else can. Maybe we are just envious? There are many parallels between what we deem the human "rat race" and the actual life of rats. If you have worked in a large corporation, the rat series will make a lot of sense and you will find yourself saying: "hey, I know someone just like that!" The crux of this concept is that we all have to become a little "rattish" sometimes. Look at it with humor, not disgust. |
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The "woodpeople"
series was simply created to meld the wood and the human form. The woodgrain
from the blocks started to fascinate me almost to the point of obsession;
I could "see" stuff in the grain, mostly humans in different poses, like
those models we have to copy over and over in school, but expressive and
alive, like real wood-humans.
I don't start out with an idea when creating these, I start out with a block or slab of wood--it knows what to do next. |
| Every self-respecting Spaniard has a tauromachia-period, no? My interpretation was showing the dilemma of the bullfighter, to kill beautifully. Corridas, bullfights, are both infinetely cruel and beautiful. They cannot be simplyfied to a mere killing of an animal, nor a spectacle for entertainment--as every tradition knows, there is much more than that. |  |
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Sometimes I firmly believe art was meant to show others the beauty of things they cannot see for themselves. The desert is a very simple world. |
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The vessels, how could I forget the vessels! These were
born out of the observation (my observation) that everyone appears to
live in their own little world as if enclosed by a vessel. There are many
worlds, so in addition to having our own little enclosure, we are bound
together in social enclosures. Examples would be the world of the artist,
the world of the immigrant, the world of the policeman, the butcher, the
baker, the candlestick-maker... I chose typical Greek vessels to represent the metaphor signifying the timelessness of social problems and eternity of our efforts to solve them. |
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The road series of engravings was born out of my love
for traveling. I will just direct you to the Road
Diary, an ongoing project. The
road goes ever on and on |
