This is a small oil on canvas that I had a lot of fun doing. It has some experimentation because at that time I was working on objects (prosthetic type) made of silicone rubber with additions of natural hair. With those objects I then took some photos of myself using them.
For a long time I had many people's hairs stored in a drawer. I had made a request through Facebook (I used it a lot back then) asking people who cut their hair if they could please donate them to me for my work. I got a lot! Different lengths and colors. It was a lot of fun, sometime maybe I will tell the reason for that series called "Blanca". But well, since I had so much I wanted to use it in my work in different ways. Honestly I didn't do much research either, sometimes I get bored quickly with ideas. Here what I did was to assemble the oil colors on the palette, cut the hairs on top, and then mix them to blend with the paint. The truth is that this experience didn't add nothing to me haha, but what I can say is that I had to "release" the brushstroke obligatorily. As the hairs did not adhere to the fabric, I had to make looser brush strokes to make them stick to the surface and not to the brush. I tend to obsess a lot when I paint, and sometimes I feel that my work loses looseness, it becomes hard because I pass the brush so many times. Sometimes I would love to have a more expressive brushstroke but I find it almost impossible. Here, timidly, it emerges that which I never achieve in my canvases, with a little more material charge even, so I consider this as a success haha.
- Este es un pequeño óleo sobre tela que me divirtió mucho hacer. Tiene algo de experimentación ya que en esa época me encontraba trabajando en objetos (tipo prostéticos) realizados en caucho de silicona con agregados de pelo natural. Con esos objetos luego me realicé unas fotos utilizándolos.
Durante mucho tiempo tuve pelos de mucha gente guardados en un cajón. Había realizado un pedido a través de Facebook (lo usaba bastante en aquel entonces) convocando a la gente que se cortaba el pelo si por favor me los podía donar para realizar obra. Me llegó muchísimo! Distintos largos y colores. Fue muy divertido, en algún momento quizás cuente el motivo de esa serie llamada “Blanca”. Pero bueno, como tenía tanto quería utilizarlo en mi obra de distintas maneras. Honestamente tampoco investigué mucho, a veces me aburro rápido de las ideas. Aquí lo que hice fue armar los colores de óleo en la paleta, cortar los cabellos encima, y luego mezclarlos para que se fundieran con la pintura. La verdad es que esta experiencia no me sumó nada jaja, pero lo que rescato es que tuve que “soltar” la pincelada obligadamente. Como los pelos no se adherían a la tela debía realizar pinceladas/toques más sueltos para lograr que quedaran pegados en la superficie y no en el pincel. Suelo obsesionarme mucho cuando pinto, y a veces siento que mi trabajo pierde soltura, se endurece por tantas veces que paso el pincel. A veces me encantaría lograr tener una pincelada más expresiva pero me resulta casi imposible. Aquí, tímidamente, aflora eso que nunca logro en mis telas, con algo más de carga matérica inclusive, así que considero esto como un éxito jaja.
Before I've read your text I thought those are cracks in the paint for a second!
I think that the presence of green make the red even more 'juicy'. It is realoly cool one! How big it is?
It's super small! it measures 30x24 cm
and yes, here the complementary colors do their job haha😁
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