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Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
<3
Studies of color and digital painting at home.
Floating Words is a collection of works, part of an ongoing process to explore asemic writing. Words exist as a graphic intention. There is no clarity. Doesn’t my activate upon reading them? Do they just exist to my eyes?
All the stamped designs on the garments were hand cut and pressed by me using leftover material from Diantres, a screen printing and design studio from Bogota, Colombia. I’m grateful for your generosity and love.
The text “They Dream” was written by Nicolás Castro.
All the drawings are part of an ongoing practice to communicate beyond meaning and sense.
All of the garments are single pieces and the ones marked with a ↺ were found in second-hand shops.
🌱 Self-hosted
Series of sketches and website e-commerce project to test Shopify headless Webapp.
The shop doesn’t exist because I don’t know if I want to pay 20 euros per month to Shopify services.
Looking to expand the possibilities of “connecting” as part of the Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice, I created a role-like game that would reflect and expand the glossary itself by proposing different approaches to it.
The different characters would perform for different perspectives on the connections among:
The liminal, the weaver, the summoner, the otherness, the inner space.
What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice is an ongoing and ever-changing attempt to introduce a diffractive methodology inside publishing practices, understanding publishing as the mere act of making public. It is organized as a container of words that are never fully defined, only annotated. Words become tools, concepts, resources, and shapes with properties that enhance new possibilities. In this glossary, they don’t close the publishing scenario to territory arts or design. Instead, they are porous and permeable to other spheres of action.
The glossary is seen as mutable, and the current state results from collective workshops where participants are invited to think and converse around its words and annotations. During the workshop, diffraction performs a conscious interconnection of practices beyond reflection.
From the technical side there is source pad were all annotations take place in a markdown format which is processed by a Python script that writes it as a website using Pandoc and then Js.
The living glossary environment tool is a web app tool to make living glossaries from a text file or a Pad (with API KEY). It allows the creation of a static website that uses the idea of a glossary as a layering of annotations rather than a closed list of words and definitions.
On the website you can make a selection of different options regarding the glossary environment you would like to make and it generates a zip file with all the necessary tools to make a living glossary.
This project was developed in parallel with the living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice. In this case, the tool is an attempt to share processes with others.
(Currently Not Online)
Temporary garden is a home small server to host personal and collective projects.
I developed and maintained it myself at home. It currently runs Raspian OS and Nginx as the web server.
I’m planning to move this to the actual index of the directory. No extra design needed. Maybe the intent manifesto on top.
The whole is a partial-topological space build by 14 micro non-games. They intersect, meet, and gather together. Click on the different situations, play using the arrow keys and leave the door open for new unexpected situations. This project was part of the Issue 14.
Luzblanca.delay is a project I did a while ago. Well, two years ago now. I didn’t finish it. But I wrote a lot about it. I was thinking about time, productivity, and I wanted to draw.
Funnily enough, it was the project where I started flirting with web pages. But the funny thing is, I haven’t finished it yet. I started with React. Obviously, nothing came of it.
I have 40 drawings.
(Work-in-progress?)
Sketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
One time, I was trying to read and I arrived here.
Exploration with RISO colors, magic and reading while traveling in the train.
Colors that are stones, stones that are the source of the words
Studies of color and painting.
These are a bit old. It gives me shivers to think about the square format now. Fuck instagram.
Personal exploration about distance, time, silence and love.
About time, scrolling, clocks and solar circumferences.
More than 500,000,000 objects inhabit the solar system; planets are only the 8 largest after the sun. This zine is an 8-page journey through space bodies that coexist with the largest objects.
A circle is a dot that in its prolongation returns to itself.
About reflection and distribution of critical thought.
Long sleeve design silk-printed by Diantres in Bogotá, Colombia.
(*)
No matter the nature of the thing, the possible jump between its particles creates its life.
Time for them always dilates, expands and become transparent. The appearance of the thing does not lie on its life meaning.
The jump is the indeterminate synthesis of the in-between: the invisible and subtle space of energy.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
Lights, rocks, stems, tension, space and composition.
Once I made sketches for a full series of these prints, I think one day I’ll make it happen.
A print made thinking about the possibility that the plants have to bend, connect, trespass and become other.
Natural Convergence: Vegetal Communities Workshop is a project that aims, using plants as a metaphor, to propose reflections on the relationship between human beings.
The workshop invites participants to observe plants, draw them and abstract them into vegetal communities on paper. It introduces the participant into allelopathy and permaculture: two practices where plant relationships are take in account.
Next to the workshop, an installation offers new plastic and spatial possibilities in terms of the relational concept of the project. How the whole is connected with the object, the viewer with the individual, and the participants with the plants. A whole built from the project’s transversal axis: being in relation to one another.
Sobre tener como fin común el derecho a la vida
About having the right to life as a common goal
Over het als gemeenschappelijk doel hebben van het recht op leven
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Rather than communicate an objective relate or a story, Encounter seeks to propose several readings about the graphic information printed on paper speculating about three “levels” of communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic. The book use as resources: organic forms that are related; different dimensions of language; paper inserts, and a text that suggests poetic and conceptual connections between all the elements of the book.
Reflection on repetition, emergency exits, and our ability to question what we see.
The framed version has the mountain from the poster painted on the frame.
Cansado, sentado en un tren, miraba el sol e intentaba pensar en inglés.
I will be with the dawn wherever she is, daughter of the moon and a silent sun,
I will be there, watching on you, your intentions, your dreams.
Smile to the journey, the change and the rhythm of this river that pretends to be.
One of my first RISO prints.
Un paisaje, el horizonte y las piedras que siempre aparecen.
Quiero volver a pensar en afiches para el páramo por eso estoy poniendo este en este archivo.
Por ahora acá va uno que hice aprendiendo RISO, y esa foto que use me gusta mucho. La tomé en el Chingaza, y no la encuentro por ningún lado.
Staring at the sun is a book project about gaze, sun, power and contemplation.
(*)
Staring at the sun,
give up to the light,
find the center,
the being
Screen printed cards to distribute on fairs.
The beginning of a series of illustrations about seeds and watchers.
It was just that: a beginning.
Illustrations I made thinking of playing cards and bugs structures. I remember back then I was inspired by this beautiful work of this old guy in Colombia that painted big colored bugs. He was like 85 back then, I wonder what is his name.
Submission for the publication “Potato” by Potato press and the publisher mul-thee-funhjk-shuh-nl.
Design in Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Groningen.
<3
Studies of color and digital painting at home.
Floating Words is a collection of works, part of an ongoing process to explore asemic writing. Words exist as a graphic intention. There is no clarity. Doesn’t my activate upon reading them? Do they just exist to my eyes?
All the stamped designs on the garments were hand cut and pressed by me using leftover material from Diantres, a screen printing and design studio from Bogota, Colombia. I’m grateful for your generosity and love.
The text “They Dream” was written by Nicolás Castro.
All the drawings are part of an ongoing practice to communicate beyond meaning and sense.
All of the garments are single pieces and the ones marked with a ↺ were found in second-hand shops.
🌱 Self-hosted
Series of sketches and website e-commerce project to test Shopify headless Webapp.
The shop doesn’t exist because I don’t know if I want to pay 20 euros per month to Shopify services.
Looking to expand the possibilities of “connecting” as part of the Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice, I created a role-like game that would reflect and expand the glossary itself by proposing different approaches to it.
The different characters would perform for different perspectives on the connections among:
The liminal, the weaver, the summoner, the otherness, the inner space.
What are the differences between reflection and diffraction?
This experimental zine explores both thought processes using book drawings, conversational writing and hole punching on the pages.
Living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice is an ongoing and ever-changing attempt to introduce a diffractive methodology inside publishing practices, understanding publishing as the mere act of making public. It is organized as a container of words that are never fully defined, only annotated. Words become tools, concepts, resources, and shapes with properties that enhance new possibilities. In this glossary, they don’t close the publishing scenario to territory arts or design. Instead, they are porous and permeable to other spheres of action.
The glossary is seen as mutable, and the current state results from collective workshops where participants are invited to think and converse around its words and annotations. During the workshop, diffraction performs a conscious interconnection of practices beyond reflection.
From the technical side there is source pad were all annotations take place in a markdown format which is processed by a Python script that writes it as a website using Pandoc and then Js.
The living glossary environment tool is a web app tool to make living glossaries from a text file or a Pad (with API KEY). It allows the creation of a static website that uses the idea of a glossary as a layering of annotations rather than a closed list of words and definitions.
On the website you can make a selection of different options regarding the glossary environment you would like to make and it generates a zip file with all the necessary tools to make a living glossary.
This project was developed in parallel with the living glossary for a diffractive publishing practice. In this case, the tool is an attempt to share processes with others.
(Currently Not Online)
Temporary garden is a home small server to host personal and collective projects.
I developed and maintained it myself at home. It currently runs Raspian OS and Nginx as the web server.
I’m planning to move this to the actual index of the directory. No extra design needed. Maybe the intent manifesto on top.
The whole is a partial-topological space build by 14 micro non-games. They intersect, meet, and gather together. Click on the different situations, play using the arrow keys and leave the door open for new unexpected situations. This project was part of the Issue 14.
Luzblanca.delay is a project I did a while ago. Well, two years ago now. I didn’t finish it. But I wrote a lot about it. I was thinking about time, productivity, and I wanted to draw.
Funnily enough, it was the project where I started flirting with web pages. But the funny thing is, I haven’t finished it yet. I started with React. Obviously, nothing came of it.
I have 40 drawings.
(Work-in-progress?)
Sketchbook experiments,
or conversations between digital and analog mediums,
Yes, better that. I like conversations.
One time, I was trying to read and I arrived here.
Exploration with RISO colors, magic and reading while traveling in the train.
Colors that are stones, stones that are the source of the words
Studies of color and painting.
These are a bit old. It gives me shivers to think about the square format now. Fuck instagram.
Personal exploration about distance, time, silence and love.
About time, scrolling, clocks and solar circumferences.
More than 500,000,000 objects inhabit the solar system; planets are only the 8 largest after the sun. This zine is an 8-page journey through space bodies that coexist with the largest objects.
A circle is a dot that in its prolongation returns to itself.
About reflection and distribution of critical thought.
Long sleeve design silk-printed by Diantres in Bogotá, Colombia.
(*)
No matter the nature of the thing, the possible jump between its particles creates its life.
Time for them always dilates, expands and become transparent. The appearance of the thing does not lie on its life meaning.
The jump is the indeterminate synthesis of the in-between: the invisible and subtle space of energy.
Space between particles is an installation that proposes a dialogue between organic forms, natural elements and geometric constructions seeking to reflect —using as metaphors the ideas of particle and network— on the relationship of beings in their environment.
The project was born and configured in the space as one of the many possibilities where the relationship between being/particle and context/network can make structural sense. Through resources of drawing, painting, sculpture and color, each piece of the installation proposes different physical encounters of the dialogue. Each of these tries to fend for itself, but in turn, by the very nature of the project, it becomes meaningful when viewed in relation to another. Some pieces approach concepts from rational thinking and others appear in space as contemplative scenarios loaded with questions and mystery.
What are the plastic capacities of the relationship? Can a relationship indicate, illustrate, describe, select, place, unveil, extract, dissociate, huddle, hide, dislocate the related …?
The project does not intend to answer those questions. Space between particles aims to be produced and get lost in the question. Just as the being can do it when thinking from within. A constant uncertainty.
Lights, rocks, stems, tension, space and composition.
Once I made sketches for a full series of these prints, I think one day I’ll make it happen.
A print made thinking about the possibility that the plants have to bend, connect, trespass and become other.
Natural Convergence: Vegetal Communities Workshop is a project that aims, using plants as a metaphor, to propose reflections on the relationship between human beings.
The workshop invites participants to observe plants, draw them and abstract them into vegetal communities on paper. It introduces the participant into allelopathy and permaculture: two practices where plant relationships are take in account.
Next to the workshop, an installation offers new plastic and spatial possibilities in terms of the relational concept of the project. How the whole is connected with the object, the viewer with the individual, and the participants with the plants. A whole built from the project’s transversal axis: being in relation to one another.
Sobre tener como fin común el derecho a la vida
About having the right to life as a common goal
Over het als gemeenschappelijk doel hebben van het recht op leven
“The Book. The Form” reflects on a fragment of the book Relational art of Nicolás Bourriaud where it is described the birth of form as Epicuro and Lucrecio did it. The project proposes, as a book, the construction of the book itself and its existence as a primary conceptual and material process.
The final result is an artist’s book that takes shape during his own process of making. In a preliminary stage the project included a book binding workshop in which it would be born as a physical object, and it would spread to others by a sharing knowlege experience, but it couldn’t happen as I planned, so the edition of the book exists but I made it by my own. This project was exhibited at La Caja Galeria in Taller Trez, as a part of the exhibition Trez con Z during Artbo Weekend in Bogotá, Colombia.
The Book:
Atoms fall parallel in the vacuum slightly diagonal,
Falling, a fortuitous detour causes an encounter with the neighbor atom.
Encounters bring clash. And with clashes,
the birth of the world.
The Form:
The world persists in form of book.
Rather than communicate an objective relate or a story, Encounter seeks to propose several readings about the graphic information printed on paper speculating about three “levels” of communication: Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic. The book use as resources: organic forms that are related; different dimensions of language; paper inserts, and a text that suggests poetic and conceptual connections between all the elements of the book.
Reflection on repetition, emergency exits, and our ability to question what we see.
The framed version has the mountain from the poster painted on the frame.
Cansado, sentado en un tren, miraba el sol e intentaba pensar en inglés.
I will be with the dawn wherever she is, daughter of the moon and a silent sun,
I will be there, watching on you, your intentions, your dreams.
Smile to the journey, the change and the rhythm of this river that pretends to be.
One of my first RISO prints.
Un paisaje, el horizonte y las piedras que siempre aparecen.
Quiero volver a pensar en afiches para el páramo por eso estoy poniendo este en este archivo.
Por ahora acá va uno que hice aprendiendo RISO, y esa foto que use me gusta mucho. La tomé en el Chingaza, y no la encuentro por ningún lado.
Staring at the sun is a book project about gaze, sun, power and contemplation.
(*)
Staring at the sun,
give up to the light,
find the center,
the being
Screen printed cards to distribute on fairs.
The beginning of a series of illustrations about seeds and watchers.
It was just that: a beginning.
Illustrations I made thinking of playing cards and bugs structures. I remember back then I was inspired by this beautiful work of this old guy in Colombia that painted big colored bugs. He was like 85 back then, I wonder what is his name.