PUMPKIN I. So Bare
Photography on plaster | 67x80cm
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On the stage of life, there stands a figure faintly lit by a spotlight.
Exposed, in complete darkness, it is the representation of our solitude in front of the world.
Only we ourselves walk our own path, despite the support of family and friends. They are like the small tendrils of pumpkins, which with their winding spirals create a network that fills the empty space, anchoring us to the earth and helping us rise.
But tonight, all the lights have gone out except for that one spotlight, which is the moon; and the atmosphere transmits a restless calm.
The gloom is an infinity, only limited by a silhouette that, with so little, is drawn.
Enough to recognize a shape, enough to know you’re awake, enough to not be lost in the night.
Pumpkin
Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.), native to the Americas, bears golden, pollinator-friendly blooms; a harvest emblem prized for nourishing flesh, versatile seeds, and sculptural autumn presence.
Reflect, conceptualize, plan, collect, select, position, illuminate, photograph, and work digital magic… this is how half of our artwork is created, the soul and essence, the image.
Measure, mix, spread, shape, wait, smooth, print, merge, paint, sign, and protect… now the artwork is complete! Photography and plaster. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
Nature that feels natural.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The artists play with the viewer's limit to recognize the photographed nature, they seek to suggest, to attract towards a bridge between the dreamlike and the real.
They make a study on sacrifice as a means of creation. The painful suppression of a part generates a new whole, a reality with unsuspected edges where subtracting gives us an unexpected abundance of beauty and visual interest. In a parallelism with time spilled in grey, boring or distressing moments that, in some way, give us a broader perspective of what it means to live and allows us to distinguish and covet the sweet stages.
Thus, in their photographs, the form faces a process of transformation, subjected to the dominion of light to be reborn in an unknown version. The volume is sectioned revealing silhouettes previously unnoticed. Different planes, different moments captured in the same vision.
At this point, the material aspect of the work plays a major role. There is a primitive emotional connection that artists ascribe to natural, earth-related, irregular and ancestral materials such as clay or plaster. This made it inevitable to embark on an arduous process of self-taught research, with countless trial and error until they were able to transfer all the power of their images from the screen to the plaster. Now, photography and volume merge into a single entity, in an unexplored materiality far from traditional supports.
