My work is affected, inevitably, by having been in close contact with nature.
My work is the opposite of man's course, leaving home, the cave and returning to nature; a pilgrim's work.
Humans deal with space. We can move around, we are free in space. Plants deal with time, and have a far greater existence. Plants are free in time. They are capable of interrupting the seed's germination, which is in fact an interrupted pregnancy, in order to germinate at a favorable time.
When I leave my work in the fields, forests and dry riverbeds, it not only captures the physical, spatial element, but also the energetic element. When it is in nature, it begins to identify with it, and to react to this body.
The intention in my work is to go beyond the four walls protecting it, to use space and go beyond. Go beyond the four walls and be affected by the conditions of time, by circumstances, as Ortega y Gasset puts it.
This is the video of my current exhibition in Saint James' Path. This exposition will last two years and it's held in Puente la Reina, in El Peregrino Hotel.
When I left my painting in Orbigo - I did a composition with the local flowers, used pigments, acrylic painting, paper and glue. Once the compositions made, I put them underneath to rest for a month in the soil:
The Four Times
“Burying of Art†by Christina Oiticica