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 SOLAR SYSTEM. Recently my sculptures look like space-ships or far away planets and spaces.........They do not seem to be from here ,from earth so to say.......They look foreign and strange..........They have another quality and atmosphere...........Maybe it is my mind , thinking of  nothing at all when I create , just following the stones and manage my tools to sculpt ,nothing more..........Maybe it is the total freedom of not worrying my mind about certain designs and shapes which I need to create to adapt to my clients or just to please other people with my works. Nothing at all no pressure............When these do sell or not it will be fine , they are with me sending out their messages to the world , just exhibiting these is sufficient .............Showing them here and there............Maybe touching someone some where is the idea........... Detail view. At the moment these strange stones are being exhibited in Coyoacan at Arte Hoy Galeria. For the last 2 years now they are silen

Writings in Stone..........

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Trying out something new for me..........Taking prints on paper , using black ink , from locally found stones called " laja" which I worked on with my simple tools making patterns , lines and more..........Writings in stone , scratching in history and "recording" it on paper using my own hands rubbing in the applied ink into the moist paper..........Touching this old material ,sensing it and passing the newly made "writings" on to the paper which is soft ,weak and totally opposite in quality compared to stone.......The heavy stone does not move at all while I am pressing the paper gently because when I use to much force the paper will come apart..........easy does it , caressing the paper with my big hands thinking of the underlaying ink on the surface of the stone getting an opposite image of what I "wrote".A strange process of hard and soft , effort and patience , pressure and muscles all the while thinking in my mind.............The final resu