My work began in 2010 when I moved from Texas to Boulder. Immersed in a deep depression, I hit bottom and my artistic work started as sort of a spontaneous therapy. I began making self-portraits of my anguish and my sense of hopelessness while incorporating that sense of humor which, despite the circumstances, I never lost. Practicing my photography, not only was I able to heal, but an intense passion for the art was awakened along with a vital need to communicate my vision of the human condition.
I have always felt a great attraction for Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Bosch, Goya and the German Expressionist movement. The idea of being able to express the dark side and the decadence of the human condition as a reaction against the beauty imposed by classical rules stirs my emotions intensely. There is also beauty in decadence, illness, misery, fear, and anguish as all of these are truths and, for me, art is a synonym of TRUTH despite the fact that it may come disguised by symbols.
In this web site , I show my creative process during these four years of constant work with photography. On this journey, I have appealed to the history of post-War Europe (including the Spanish Civil War), the almost infantile expression of Romanesque and Gothic art, the colorful explosion of Kandinsky, and the Baroque technique of chiaroscuro, which, in photography, happens quite often in a natural way.
