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CATALOGUE OF SPECIFIC EMOTIONS

FineArt Igualada, Spain · 2019

A collection of abstract images that try to give shape to complex sensations such as confusion, helplessness or madness. Most of them are chemigrams, a technique in which photographic developing chemicals are used to paint on light-sensitive paper.

 

In Losing Clarity I, II, III the image becomes progressively blurred, an allegory of a growing state of mental confusion. Chemigrams appeal to our aesthetic sensibility: their meaning lies less in reason than in instinct and emotion.

Madness

Madness

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Stuck in My Ways

Stuck in My Ways

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

50 × 70 cm

Stuck in My Ways After a Cigarette

Stuck in My Ways After a Cigarette

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

50 × 70 cm

Overwhelmed I

Overwhelmed I

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Overwhelmed II

Overwhelmed II

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Untitled

Untitled

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Losing Clarity I

Losing Clarity I

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Losing Clarity II

Losing Clarity II

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Losing Clarity III

Losing Clarity III

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Neuromusic

Neuromusic

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

10 × 15 cm

Irrational Pace

Irrational Pace

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

10 × 15 cm

A Memory Fading Away

A Memory Fading Away

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Hypnagogia: The Sweet Moment Between Waking and Sleep

Hypnagogia: The Sweet Moment Between Waking and Sleep

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

10 × 15 cm

Nebulosa

Nebulosa

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Black N

Black N

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Image of My Brain Generating an Idea

Image of My Brain Generating an Idea

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

18 × 24 cm

B

B

Chemigram and collage on gelatin silver paper

18 × 24 cm

i

i

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

18 × 24 cm

Sahara I

Sahara I

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Sahara II

Sahara II

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

Tree in My Mind

Tree in My Mind

Chemigram on gelatin silver paper

30 × 40 cm

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