Being

Before the journey comes presence.

Being is not a stable form. It takes shape between who we are, what we inherit, what we project, and the successive images through which we try to recognize ourselves. Painting begins with this changing condition and turns it into a space for inquiry.

I am drawn to the archetype because it allows us to move beyond the individual. Jung understood it as a deep structure with no definitive image, one that reappears in different forms. Both its permanence and its capacity for transformation are present in these works. Figures from different times and contexts share gestures, attitudes, and symbols that we recognize even before we understand them.

The image then ceases to belong solely to the person it represents. It can hold strength, vulnerability, resistance, desire, identity, or transformation: particular experiences that, through painting, take on a broader dimension.

That is why symbols appear again and again. Not as codes to be deciphered, but as places where the gaze comes to rest. Color, gesture, scale, and certain symbolic elements create a reality that does not seek to reproduce what is visible, but to open up another way of perceiving.

In these works, the intimate and the collective coexist, as do the contemporary and what seems to come from far earlier times. The archetype endures, but its image changes. Each era gives it new form, and each gaze may recognize something different in it.

To paint being is not to fix or define it. It is to draw near to what remains while everything else transforms.