La doncella guerrera. Acrylic on canvas. 73 x 60 cm. 2010

Thanks to everyone who voted for The Holy Beauty Project on 3rd Ward and helped me spread the word. The voting closed last Thursday and the results are due early September -so, fingers crossed!. Also, thank you for the kind messages/comments supporting the new project! :) (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read my previous post).

This blog post is the first of three I’ll write about Volume I of The Holy Beauty Project. Throughout the years I’ve been trying to become more effective in explaining my work. Although you should usually get better at things with practice, it seems I’m only getting worse at this area. After so much time working with images, words have started to appear so fragile to me. It takes me ages to write down my thoughts on my work, and after I’m done with it, I kinda feel that everything I’m saying is bullshit. But sometimes it’s mandatory to discuss things. Right now, for instance, I feel the urge to tell you a bit more about my project, no matter how much it scares me to. I’ll start talking about the paintings, then the photos, and finally the video. But before I get started, I’d like to tell you where the whole idea comes from.

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Finally…the day has arrived. I’m shaking with excitement  while writing this post…here it is, the project I’ve been talking about for months now.

It’s the first volume of The Holy Beauty Project. You’ll be able to get a first glance of my most recent paintings, which I haven’t shown to anyone yet, while you check me dance around in a crazy videotaped photoshoot. Yes…you read it right: Painting + Photo + Video!!  :-)

SEE AND READ EVERYTHING ABOUT IT HERE!!!!

I was planning to launch the project by mid August, but I’m applying for an art call and the voting deadline is tomorrow. Please vote for me here!!! (Rate my portfolio).

Looking forward to your feedback :)

Details of 9 brand new paintings! (Click on the image for better view).

I’ve been keeping these back for a while now because they’re part of a big project I’m working on, that I’ll share with you very, very soon!

Will you be able to handle it? Stay tuned to find out…

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For the last month I have been working on a collaborative series with British fine-art photographer Miss Aniela (aka Natalie Dybisz).  We met in a weekend trip to Paris last June, took lots of pictures and uploaded four of the resulting images onto Flickr -check the work we’ve done if you haven’t already! After the two days we had to work on several ideas and this last month of online post-processing, I’m surprised of how many things we have in common, in spite of the seemingly big differences between our individual work.

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Click on the image to see what participants are saying on Flickr!

Note: If you are not familiar with the Art Project Dialogue With the Radio, please >>go here<< to see what is it about.

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At last, the identity of the anonymous authors in the project Dialogue With the Radio has been revealed!! Remember the mysterious E, N, D and ENEDD? Well, find out who they are now!!!:

Allow me to introduce Nicolás Díaz Durana, who is standing right next to me in this not-so-artsy portrait.  We met in our hometown, Bogotá. We both went to catholic schools for boys and girls separately, where we developped a passionate desdain for labels, stereotypes, social standards, as well as anything that would give us false and gratuitous expectations concerning life, humankind, wellbeing, self-esteem, future, happiness, etc (i.e any kind of religous group, political party, self-help group, a fan club, a fast diet program, and so forth). But we didn’t meet until University, and before that we both thought we were bound to end up alone, for we are conscientious guardians of our own individuality, and we do not embrace strangers easely. Subsequently, we entered each other’s lives slowly, almost reluctantly…and I don’t know when and how we fell in love, it just happened. Our story is not one to put in a movie, epic lovestory overseas, tragedy with a happy ending.

We are just two human beings that truly love each other. We stubbornly search for ways to improve our lives and we do not intend to change the world.

>>He writes, I make images. He is E, N, D, ENEDD. One, two and many more. We both created and run Dialogue With The Radio, the online version as well as the design of the book*. We just came back from a holiday, more sick than ever of flowers and sweet pieces of joyful empty sounds. We don’t want to filter our ideas anymore…not even a tiny bit.

“How talented are you? Can you speak your mind? I mean, what’s down under, not what’s floating in the shiny top of your very kind convinience.

Images speak out. This section invites you to do the same thing. Are you to it”.**

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* We’re designing the book…please be patient about that, it’s a long process!

** Quote from >>the very first DWTR set.