As a self-taught artist who has journeyed from South America to Germany, how have your experiences across these cultures influenced the emotional language and energy in your abstract paintings?
When I arrived in Germany, I didn't speak a single word of German. Looking back, I think that's exactly why I poured myself into painting. It was the way I had left to express anything at all when the words were missing. And being South American marked my style permanently: the palette I grew up with was strong, mixed, beautiful. It's hard not to love explosive colour when you spend your childhood seeing araguaney trees flare almost neon yellow in the middle of a green, tropical landscape.
Your creative process is deeply intuitive, allowing each painting to evolve organically. Can you describe a moment during your practice when following your instincts led to an unexpected breakthrough on the canvas?
At some point I realised my intuition keeps pulling me toward shapes. Lines, squares, rectangles, but never perfectly straight. I never use tools or rulers to correct them. I think subconsciously I want to represent the mix of order and chaos that rules our lives. You see the shape sitting there, but look closely and it will never be perfect, like all of us. That was my first real breakthrough, the moment I understood what my style actually was.
Texture and bold contrasts are central in your work, often representing tension between opposing forces. What draws you to explore this push and pull, and how does it reflect your personal outlook or inner landscape?
It happens naturally. I have always been drawn to strong contrasts rather than calm, minimalist shapes, and I can't fully explain why. I think it's the combinations you would expect the least, the ones that are almost uncomfortable to look at, that pull me in. What interests me is taking those and making them work together harmoniously inside one painting.
Since painting is a form of healing for you, how has your art helped you process emotions or moments in life that felt difficult to put into words?
Painting has always been present in my life, which means it has been there for the good moments and the bad ones. But it became my vessel after I was diagnosed with a severe, incurable autoimmune disease. During the worst period the pain was so bad that I could not hold a brush. I had to reinvent myself and fold that into how I grew as an artist. Art is what carried me through long stretches of not knowing what would happen with my health, with the pain, or with a life that had completely changed shape.
When someone encounters your art for the first time, what do you hope they feel or take away from the quiet intensity embedded in each piece?
I want my paintings to be a reminder of now. Something that brings you completely into the present moment, where your eyes hold you there and you stop thinking altogether. Not analysing, not decoding, just looking. If someone stands in front of a piece and forgets for a moment what they were carrying in with them, then it has done what I wanted it to do.
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