Every person on Earth is born with dreams that surpass their own humanity. Mine was always to fly. As a pilot, I broke the natural limits of my existence. I went beyond. And it was precisely there, in the air, that I understood my mission in life as a man: to live.
I became an architect and sought the meaning of inhabitation not only in the physical form of how we populate our world, but also in confronting the limits of human inhabitation in linguistics. We inhabit with our words.
In the passage of time, history is created. History, which for humans is told, written. I am a storyteller. And in today’s world, the alphabetic mind of humans led us to inhabit the image. The image of the world.
Thus, after this journey, I descend from heaven to my task of inhabiting the world. My inhabiting is an artistic endeavor. Only in this world where I am immersed does art allow me to inhabit.
And it is in this way, as in this journey of life, that I tell stories of who we are, what we feel, and what we want to say. Whether in constructions or photographs, in videos or documentaries, in the diary of life, in which I go: telling stories. Within the Master’s in Plastic and Visual Arts at the National University of Colombia, the approach I faced at the beginning of my studies proposed a method for creation that consisted of looking at the origin. At first, I looked to the radio telescope image of the Big Bang for a trace that would give me a map that would draw a creative horizon.
Working on this image, I explored various interpretations of the image that would show me a creative possibility for my Master’s degree. It was in this way that, over the course of the first semester, I faced the difficulty of embarking on a creative path. I couldn’t see a horizon, and that’s why I decided to work on a state I faced in the airplane when flying through the clouds. This moment in the airplane is called instrumentation. When flying through clouds, you lose all physical reference. White is everywhere, and the sense of gravity is lost. Inside the cloud, you have to constantly observe your instruments, especially the artificial horizon, to maintain normal flight conditions. The artificial horizon allows you to navigate in bad weather conditions. Only then can you move forward, and so I decided to work with this state as the subject of the visual art I developed for my Master’s degree.
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