Chikitín

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I get asked a lot if it has any meaning that I put 4 eyes on my portraits. I'm going to leave a brief explanation here for those of you who haven't heard this one yet.

About 7-8 years ago I had a series of very intense experiences of a metaphysical nature that made me rethink reality as I had conceived it until then and this made me open my eyes to what we really were and what reality itself was. As a result of these experiences my works (at that time I had been painting oil paintings for about 10 years) changed from a darker and more pessimistic theme to a more metaphysical theme. I had already painted, before all this process, a painting years ago in which the protagonist had not one but many looks and something inside me had been touched by painting that painting, a concept about us that bothered me and that painting made me removed.

So it was just one more of my surreal experiments, but when all this happened to me, that painting took on a different importance, because it explained an idea that had been burned into my soul: that we are not what we believe, that believing something it has a lot of power in our soul because it shapes it and that the lies we believe (and I say lies because everything is a lie, a prejudice, something that is not immutable and that does not last and that we lack an infinity of information to know the truth) they make us have not only an internal form, but also a certain internal and external point of view. But this point of view endures, because lies change, what we perceive mutates and everything is transmuted and perceived again with another prism. Either in this life that our consciousness lives at this moment or in "other lives".

These pictures of several eyes made the perfect reference to this concept that could be summed up in that we conscious beings think we are something and we change from ego to ego when the ego we think we have is destroyed....

And so my most personal work was born, metaphysical and with a seed that makes us uncomfortable because a forgotten truth is stirred in our subconscious, that what we believe is not true.