Polvo de Luz. / Light Dust

It has been very difficult to create this new series of paintings when the current environment appears so dark and tangled, between wars, weapons, death, extremist polarization, absolutist discourses, deterministic visions.
Faced with this uncertain panorama, looking for an alternative to not be paralyzed by anxiety and fear; my spirit led me to an essential, conciliatory conclusion, in which following the train of thoughts of philosophers, thinkers, artists, scientists; I was inclined to create works in which in some way there is an exchange, a language in which human beings and the stars, the cosmos, converse in a space of daydreaming, desires, fantasies and at the same time certainties with provenance and purpose.
With these works, I hope to overcome the homocentrism that has made us selfish and narcissistic. We humans are immersed in a small sphere of concerns and situations, which bring us dangerously close to the pessimistic conclusion that we are the only and solitary form of wisdom that exists in the infinite universe.
This myopia is contradicted by the discoveries of our most advanced telescopes, which have revealed that the cosmos is the kitchen where the entire universe is kneaded with the same ingredients.
Everything living and non-living is composed of structurally identical elements: stardust.
The result from these chemical reactions produces light, but this light is inherently ambivalent: it can both reveal and blind. Clarity and obscurity thus emanate from the same source. We live in the light of this paradox, where the brighter the bonfires of knowledge rage, the darker the darkness that is revealed before our surprised eyes.
Philosophy insists that our individual spiritual development depends on the cultivation of an inner light. This light of knowledge illuminates our path, illuminates our conscience, ignites our intellect. Through its radiance it helps us try to clarify doubts and existential questions. Fills us with seeds of immensity.
But as we learn new things, we are surprised by the distance between what we know and what we hope to know. Discerning between light and darkness, truth and falsehood, good and evil, what is real and what is illusory is an infinite and precarious task.
In this exercise we can also lose our way. The same light that guides us can lead us astray and illuminate the dark alley of a dead end; It can obstruct our vision, it can deceive us, leaving us in ignorance, polarizing our opinions, sowing resentment, suppressing our capacity for empathy, annihilating our capacity for critical thinking and, in extreme cases, forcing us to turn off the light of thought. With a myopic vision, we lose our sense of location, our moral compass and we lose the point of view from which, as living beings, we share an intimate affinity between us who belong to the same planet Earth and this same planet, to the Universe.
From my pictorial vision between my light and my shadow, I invite every viewer to question what it means and could mean for each of us to be “human”; to be a spark of life in the cosmos that flickers and vibrates brightly and extinguishes coldly.
To quote the words of Carl Sagan: “We are a mote of dust suspended in a ray of sunshine.”