Media:
This project brought together artists, scientists and citizens to converse and create artworks reflecting on different questions. The output was an exhibition, multiple conversations and this printed book.
Layout design for the Master’s Thesis publication The ice was blue and the Ice was thick written by Lea Novi.
This was made in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella.
We de try is a publication about listening made in collaboration with the writer Esther Kamara.
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.
walkie talkie is a collective publication launched last July in Rotterdam for the grad show of experimental publishing. We, as the graphic design team, design a protocol/system to gather all the submissions from participants. We designed, printed and gave a small booklet that explains carefully the rules they needed to follow in order to write their text and easily adjust them in the overall design made by us.
🌱 Self-hosted (at xpub hub)
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
This book is a collaboration with my beloved Avital Barkai for her web project Writing Cure. It is sticky to read, full of details and as a book got a nice feeling to the touch.
Every second page you can open it as a poster that interpreted an interface of the website.
We have some last copies available.
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.
“morph” is a visual sequence where Scorpio, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and Pluto are astrological triggers for questions about control, trust, detachment, and levity. Using the idea of a loop, this publication is presented as an infinite trace of personal transformation and reflection.
when air hopes for water,
it becomes scorpion to swim,
fully sunk, air forgets how to breathe,
sometimes dies,
sometimes lives,
it shines,
they drown,
both morph.
This notebook was made in collaboration with Alberto Miani and Daniela Rodriguez. A offset printed notebook with drawings of particles spreading all over. This object is part of a bigger collection of daily life objects made in collaboration with different artists. An astray, a table cloth and this one, a notebook.
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.
“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.
This project brought together artists, scientists and citizens to converse and create artworks reflecting on different questions. The output was an exhibition, multiple conversations and this printed book.
Layout design for the Master’s Thesis publication The ice was blue and the Ice was thick written by Lea Novi.
This was made in collaboration with Maria Paris under attempt’s umbrella.
We de try is a publication about listening made in collaboration with the writer Esther Kamara.
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.
walkie talkie is a collective publication launched last July in Rotterdam for the grad show of experimental publishing. We, as the graphic design team, design a protocol/system to gather all the submissions from participants. We designed, printed and gave a small booklet that explains carefully the rules they needed to follow in order to write their text and easily adjust them in the overall design made by us.
🌱 Self-hosted (at xpub hub)
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
This book is a collaboration with my beloved Avital Barkai for her web project Writing Cure. It is sticky to read, full of details and as a book got a nice feeling to the touch.
Every second page you can open it as a poster that interpreted an interface of the website.
We have some last copies available.
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.
“morph” is a visual sequence where Scorpio, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and Pluto are astrological triggers for questions about control, trust, detachment, and levity. Using the idea of a loop, this publication is presented as an infinite trace of personal transformation and reflection.
when air hopes for water,
it becomes scorpion to swim,
fully sunk, air forgets how to breathe,
sometimes dies,
sometimes lives,
it shines,
they drown,
both morph.This notebook was made in collaboration with Alberto Miani and Daniela Rodriguez. A offset printed notebook with drawings of particles spreading all over. This object is part of a bigger collection of daily life objects made in collaboration with different artists. An astray, a table cloth and this one, a notebook.
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.
“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.
Cover and back cover for Tajalapiz publication. A sketchbook collection of Bogotá artists.
This brings me good memories.
