Into the Void (Serie)
Acrylic on canvas and wood. Different dimensions.
2022-2023
The void is understood here as everything that inhabits the living, which is not matter but is there, uniting everything and nothingness. It would be everything that does not depend on the laws of space and time, nor on gravity, but inhabits all existence. In a way, it is even more real than anything we can perceive with our senses. The only way I have found to perceive emptiness and become aware of its existence is through meditation, shamanic practices and working with sacred plants.
Series dedicated to the concept of emptiness or void, making it visible through geometric wefts and meshes where the figure of the Toroid has special prominence. This figure alludes to the movement of energy in space.
Emptiness is the awareness of the divine, the awareness that everything is united under one self. When you connect from the deepest part of your being with that consciousness you can even navigate through it and act in the fabric of existence. You cannot think of it with the mind, nor with the heart, it is something beyond human. To connect with it or to approach to understand it you have to do it from the ancestral memory, from your DNA, from every cell of your being. There are no words to explain it, but there are ways, doors or tools to access this state.
Into the void, has been conceived as a series of works to access that state. The intention of these works is that the viewer observes them calmly, one at a time, with a peripheral gaze, focused, but without looking at any particular point, without analyzing and without judging, just letting the gaze rest on it. This act will help the viewer to enter a state of deep meditation, if he is able to maintain full attention for a long time. The ideal is to dedicate at least 15 minutes to the act. What will happen is that the work will begin to provoke an optical effect of movement, a sensation that the two dimensions of the canvas disappear and a third, deeper, living, moving and limitless dimension opens up. The intention of this observation exercise is to access a state of deep meditation.
The act of meditating leads you to transcend matter, the body and the consciousness of the self, entering into communion with something much greater, with a kind of unique, unrepeatable and indescribable truth, which confers a very deep peace and well-being that can only be associated with pure love.
These works are designed to be in a place where they can be used as a tool for meditation or in a space dedicated to health to help people in need.
Can a work of art help heal the one who contemplates it, serve as a visual medicine to make that person ascend to a higher state of health? Is it really possible to access a deeper state of consciousness simply by observing a painting?
Would it be possible to help a weak, sick or low immune system person to raise their level of defenses and vitality simply through the contemplation of works of art? I would like to think so.