indigo, lapis lazuli, clay, wax, argan, eggs and corn paste on canvas.Based on the mix of ancestral techniques from the... Read More
indigo, lapis lazuli, clay, wax, argan, eggs and corn paste on canvas.
Based on the mix of ancestral techniques from the African and Asian continents between the Mali´s Bogolan, the Nigeria´s Adire and other textile techniques ranging from Moroccan tanning to Indian isolation painting, this work was developed in the Berbere tanks of Marrakech through a gesture practice taught by the body, nature and time. With 100% organic materials there is an understanding of the influence of the environment on the pictorial result of the work, where each frame goes through many washing processes and exposure to Saharan heat to deliver the final aesthetic result of multiple shades of blue. Biology acts as an arbitrary conductor on the materiality of the work, from the absorption of the cotton web under pigment moisture, to the development of layers and textures rejected by the textile web. In the process of this work there is no intentional direct line drawing, only the conduction of natural reactions on the surface in order to develop a decolonial research focused on the awakening of other pictorial construction methodologies. What fascinates me most about my delivery in this work, besides revisiting my ancestry and the possibility of materializing my lost afro-diasporic genealogy through my work, is the freedom of time that each piece needs to react and then exist.