SURFACES
I feel the need to combine my faith with my artistic expression.
The values of modern culture that sorround me inspire me to be a peace maker
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“THE TRUE VINE”
Minerals and gold fragments over board
12x12” / 2011
Apart from the true vine we are nothing – I am the true vine and you are the branches, and my father is the husbandman, Jesus said. That was music to the disciples’ ears, I suppose, as Jesus was talking in a simple and practical living context. I always have been thinking that the word of God nurture us with life as the vine nurtures branches. So in this work I offer a context on a prussian blue mineral, providing light to the Vine and the branches around, placed with delicacy on a sheet of gold.
Flowers are small and green color, and pending on bunches. The fruits are globe-shaped and covered with a fine white dust; they are the grapes.
GOD RAISES US
God shows us the image of the husbandman inclining himself in order to pick the branch up; the question is why it needs to be raised. The answer is that the natural tendency of new branches is dragging on the floor as they grow. But down in the floor they don’t give nor produce fruit because their leaves are covered with dust and do not receive sunlight in order to realize their photosynthesis process. Besides, when it rains they are covered with mud; and hence they are covered with mould, so they get sick.
We could think that once the branch is in that situation it’s just a matter of cut it and discard it. But this is not the case. Every husbandman knows how valuable are the branches, so the husbandman goes over the rows of the vineyard looking for those branches sinking in the mud with a bucket at hand. When he met them, he pick and wash them up to enroll and tie them again to the fence and surprisingly they prosper again almost immediately.
The Branch is engrafted to the living vine. Fiber to fiber, vein to vein, goes growing in the stem. The life of the vine comes to be the life of the branch. In order for this fruit to appear, it takes a pruning. This labor is also made by the husbandman. It is frequent that an excessive growing has to be cute for the branch can develop strength. The excessive foliage gives a mistaken impression as it prevents the appropriate development.
