Drift and Collapse
This still-undefined proposal draws inspiration from forms found in nature and the environment at large—particularly those that appear strange, violent, or illogical. It will focus on the underlying relationship between my personal language of abstraction and certain as-yet-undetermined elements from both the city and the natural world, including vegetation, insects, arachnids, and other invertebrates. This relationship will ultimately be shaped by the specific environment in which the project takes place—the in situ experience—which will define the execution and final nature of the work.
The project consists of paintings and a short video art piece, and stems from the conceptualization of a new series I have recently begun to develop, titled Drift and Collapse. In this series, subtlety is intertwined with disruptive form, proposing a play of perspectives and tensions, suspended within delicate spaces. These are paintings developed through various processes and layers, as if they were ecosystems, where multiple visual languages interlock, generating a process of transformation within the painting itself.
Drift is understood as an accumulative and ongoing process of gradual change. In this process, each layer, each gesture or detail, acts as a small trace of that constant transformation. Drift advances subtly, creating a sense of movement that is almost imperceptible. However, this process of transformation reaches a limit in collapse.
Collapse represents that critical moment when a system loses its stability, and its structure either disintegrates or abruptly transforms. It is an act of redefinition, where what once seemed stable and cohesive becomes distorted, giving way to a new form of dissonance within the work. This tension between the gradual and the abrupt—between the softness of drift and the rupture of collapse—is what animates the aesthetic proposal of the series.
Drift and Collapse is also a process of searching, one inherent to every creative act—a search for something unknown, which ultimately culminates in the random. Drift is understood here as that indirect pursuit of randomness, the process that precedes the moment of encountering something.
