Cuentos Modernos (04), Collage analógico+spray, 25×25 cm, 2015

Briefly describe the work you do. 

I use photography as a form of personal expression and communication, as well as my own relationship with the environment and way of self-knowledge. I am introvert and the camera destroyed those walls, helping to pass to other people what I think, I feel and I see around me.

The topics treated in my work are the time (past, present and future), memory, forgetfulness, nature and the time that I happen to live. I document this from a personal perspective, reflecting as it makes me feel and how I see the circumstances that happen to me as an individual. I also work with my feelings referring to different situations, using the photography to know them and interpret them. 

I try to find beauty, both in the good and in the bad, because any situation, no matter how bad that makes us feel, has a beautiful part; on the difficulties is the change and personal evolution. 

As for the technique I use, I always used digital cameras until this year 2015, because I’m making a first contact with analogue photography. 

I also work with archival photographs, especially my family album for the contrast between past and present and how we can imagine the future after examining this evolution. I also experiment with image transfer, intervention and collage. 

Tell us about your background and how that has had an influence on your work and on you as an artist.

I always took pictures in order to keep some moments (school excursions, parties, outings with friends …). Eventually I realized that memory is something very important to me; the fear of forget a moment drives me to save them. This fear combined with my passion for the collecting have greatly influenced my work, since my works are just that, ordered moments, objects / places collected with one intention: to tell something about me or my world view.

173-365, Fotografía digital intervendia con hilos, 20×30 cm, 2014

The concept of the artist studio has a broad range of meanings in contemporary practice. Artists may spend much of their time in the actual studio, or they may spend very little time in it. Tell us about your individual studio practice and how it differs from or is the same as traditional notions of “being in the studio.”

It depends on the project that i’m working. If the work is something manual, like collage or photographic intervention, my house could be the studio where I work, particularly my bedroom. Although I work elsewhere / houses depending on whether I’m traveling or working jointly with another person. 

If the work is photography, I do not have a studio, the reality would be my studio. Everywhere, city, building, transport … The world would be my studio here.

What roles do you find yourself playing that you may not have envisioned yourself in when you first started making art?

I never imagined that would be the way I want to earn my life, my perfect job, although this has still not been accomplished. 

When I started to create I never imagined the depth that I ended up reaching. I took photos for fun, going to nice things or moments that I wanted to remember, but I never imagined it would end up working on serious projects, creating works trying to convey an idea, a concept; I did not thought that photography (and the act of creation in general) would end up being a major and indispensable part of my life.

When do you find is the best time to make art? Do you set aside a specific time everyday or do you have to work whenever time allows?

I think it’s something that can not be calculated. There are many factors influencing the creation: inspiration, the mood, have time, space and material available to work. 

In 2014 I did a 365 project and I realized that (to some extent), you can not force yourself to create, if your mood or your condition does not allow it, because the result ends up being a complete disaster … I am not saying that you have to leave it for weeks because you feel depressed. You do not have to leave it, but you do not have to press it too.

How has your work changed in the past five years? How is it the same?

5 years ago my photographs were just that, pictures. I worried that the final result were beautiful, with the technique used correctly. At that time I began to realize that images not only reflect the beauty, they told stories, so I started to take photos with some intention behind the images. Today my understanding of photography has changed. Now I work with projects or series whose mission is to tell a story, convey a message.

How have people such as family, friends, writers, philosophers, other artists or even pop icons had an impact on the work you do?

I spend a lot of time each day to see the work of other contemporary artists on Internet, so i could say that in my work there are influences of mainly young artists. Another factor that also influences much my work is my circle of friends, with whom I exchange points of views about all sorts of topics. From this kind of conversations emerge ideas for future projects. Also, I like to take photos of them, they are often protagonists of what I do.