The word for the first gardens that began to be built in Japan was shima, which means island. A small islet that was located in the middle of a pond and was the heart of the garden.

During the process of this exhibition, the relationship between painting and the idea of ​​a Japanese garden as the creation of a space of singular nature has been very present. Places that invite us to enjoy and experience a nature of deep essences. Both the garden
vegetation, such as stone and gravel, are spaces of communion with a built landscape, which, like painting, fosters an experience of looking that introduces us to the stillness and latency of time.

The island that the limits of the canvas draw, proposes painting as an untranslatable experience that is read through the gaze of its forms. Painting as a way of simplicity that leads to a deeper and more original knowledge, where there is nothing beyond what happens, which is a lot.

Shima / De musgos y arenas