“Si vis pacem para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war), a quote by Vegetius. My “PARABELLUM” is a... Read More
“Si vis pacem para bellum” (If you want peace, prepare for war), a quote by Vegetius. My “PARABELLUM” is a call to strength symbo-lized by the features of a bull, an archetype of concreteness, a circle topped by a crescent moon: the meeting of creative impulses taking shape within matter, an ancient signifier of ideas brought down to earth and realized.The horns, decorated with fluid and fragmented textures of color, feature a pure platinum leaf gilding. I wanted to emphasize their importance through this superior metal which, ac-cording to alchemists, represented the union of gold and silver, of the sun and the moon. The ancient Spanish platina - the despised “bad silver” - was actually beyond the understanding of those who were ignorant of its true qualities.The woman upside down, the arcanum of the Hanged Man, the twelfth card, invites us to observe the ear-thly world from a more spiritual point of view, even inverted. It is liberation, it is the courage to go against the grain to express one’s inner world and to connect it with everything that is outside. OUT-SIDE, where one must inevitably clash with all difficulties.
