About the work

An abstract take on a dreamland future: clean, green and slightly unreal, with a captivating display of wavering lights, like a sort of graphic aurora borealis. This work is part of a series of experimental working I did two days before Christmas, last year, while I was in the kitchen table of my mother-in-law in Tacuarembo city, north of Uruguay, where we went for the Christmas celebrations. I was just enjoying my time, having fun, and later on, sharing all that with a niece and my daughter. I was not specifically thinking about the future at that moment, although that time of the year usually brings a bit of the spirit of revision of the past, nostalgia, and thinking about what is next, what are the challenges for the following year. Sometime later, Minted challenge was announced and when I read about the theme I revised some of those mentioned works and found that some of them could fit the theme. As part of my work process, I usually scan my originals and rework them digitally. And that's what I did this time too. I went to Photoshop and began to experiment with the aspects of the work that suggested the idea of the future to me. In this particular case, the optical effect of the irregular repeating lines suggested to me an idea of light and vibration. By association, I was transported to the idea of aurora borealis against some futuristic mountain landscape (obviously inspired by ten years living in Santiago de Chile, under the majestic landscape of the Cordillera de los Andes). That is how this abstract take on a dreamland future developed and turned into a clean, green and slightly unreal, with a captivating display of wavering lights, sort of graphic aurora borealis. I tend to work in abstract terms, concerned about lines, shapes, color and patterns. I have used lines as a way of self expression for a long time. Once, over 30 years ago, I did a short course in drawing and the teacher at the time noticed how I liked to use lines and introduced me to the works of Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. I fell in love. There was no internet at that time, but there were books, libraries and museums and I could discover the optical art movement and admire their work since then.