Whale, 2026. Oil on canvas, 160x100 cm - diptych
The base of the painting, before the silkscreen printing, is produced using a traditional technique. The highlights and midtones are painted with a brush on the two mirrored canvases (slides 08 and 09). Above the organic/analog brushstroke, we apply the shadows with silkscreen, which is applied mechanically/digitally, through the photographic index. In the diptych, we see the photographic index on the top canvas in contrast to the gestural effect on the bottom canvas, its reflection. But the halftone dot, which echoes the high ISO grain of analog photography, is not present on the base, because on the bottom canvas, the reflection, I drag the digital halftone dots with the brush. Transmuting the mechanical into the organic. Altering the perception of reality through fragmentation/reflection/echo, news from outside Plato's cave, similarly to how nature mirrors our images in a river where there is no wind. It is a discussion of the image from the boundaries between memory and photography. Between the tension/pressure/stress of the impossibility of error in applying oil paint to the silkscreen. Made a mistake? You lost everything. Everything: the base of the painting, the screen on the frame, and the silkscreen itself.