Luis González Palma

Luis González Palma - ST

Artist's Biography: In my artistic process I have tried to create images that invite to be examined through what I call "emotional contemplation", giving through the beauty of them the sense of their form. Over the years I have built scenarios and modified certain faces to create images that allow other perceptions of the world, other ways of understanding it, and of modifying it internally.

 

To make two stories, two times, two distant situations coincide. To create a kind of ephemeral ceremony with the gaze: that of symbolically uniting two desires that wander through the world on different paths. To perceive in a brief moment the vestiges of a silent game, that of someone who is astonished by the encounter of an adult gaze with his childish gaze, the restless one, the one that carries the innocence of the world on its shoulders, the one that makes nature beat in our mind. A look from which bridges, points of union, ephemeral contacts can be imagined. Encounters where secrets are told in silence, as if deep and ancient bonds were reestablished. Encounters without pressure, devoid of spasms, where there is only a slight, almost imperceptible touch. The bird imagines that its wings fly freely, and although its claws cling tightly to a dry trunk, its freedom has no limits. To achieve this he knows that it takes a certain inner calm and the serenity of the wind; an agreement with the clouds and practicing patience. It takes a meditative space, the confidence that there are paradises that have not been lost, that are there, ready to offer a moment of joy. The bird breathes and then closes its eyes. My quest is not only that of the encounter between two distant branches. My true search is that of the encounter between my gaze and the miracle of life, between my work and the gaze of the spectator; two natures that come together through a visual and emotional experience charged with sensitivity. Like that of a blind man who deciphers a text from the touch of his fingers. My desire is to establish a poetic dialogue from the unexpected, to generate an image that stimulates our imagination. In the end, this project is a metaphor for the encounter with oneself and with the other, with the other, with the different, with the foreign and with one's own. By the way, what does a stone bird dream about?