Route landscapes

2016 – 2017

Charcoal, dry pastel, natural pigment, graphite and linseed oil on 250g blotting paper.

Series of eight (08) works: 66 x 97 cm each.
Frame in raw box with glass.

Series of twelve (12) works: varied measures.

Black frame with glass.

Triptych: 321 x 107 cm.

Frames in raw box with glass.

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Route landscapes  is a visual research in drawing that begins with the exploration of different materials – charcoal, natural pigments, pastels, graphite, linseed oil, beeswax and paraffin. The use of these materials involves accidental and casual situations arising from alternative processes of application and fixation of these on the surface of blotting paper. The realization of Landscapes involves a great deal of uncertainty and provisionality generated by the characteristics of the chosen materials and the processes used.

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The name suggests the construction of a place with possible paths, as well as a place where broken, broken, disconnected spaces are glimpsed, which indicate the existence of something that connects them. A space of broken memories, of the absence of meaning, or of a structure that only partially remains, in pieces, to be deciphered. Likewise, the name points to the possibility of traversing these spaces, through routes that cross this fragmented landscape in a metaphorical construction of thought itself.

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The drawings open up as vectors for reflection on the geographic, historical and political space in which we are inserted. They point to the possibility of thinking about the construction of an imaginary specific to the environment, which carries its importance both in the formulation of image making, in the act of drawing, and in the open space of vision and possible elaboration through the eyes of the observer. I think about how the physical memory of the terrain adds to individual and collective memory, through a construction that is interconnected in the dimension of the natural landscape and in the presence of human interference in space.

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