The Thresholds

Here, the path ceases to be merely an archetype and becomes an experience. Awakening, Labyrinth, Metamorphosis, and Illumination emerge from a single quest: four states of an inner journey that, through painting, asks what it means to traverse one’s own consciousness.

In Ávila, my homeland, this quest takes on a particular resonance. Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross made inner experience a path to knowledge; Moses de León, an essential figure in Jewish mysticism, also lived here. In my work, this spiritual heritage enters into dialogue with metaphysics, ontology, and philosophy; the Tree of Life; angels; Jung, archetypes, and the collective unconscious: different ways of approaching what eludes immediate knowledge.

In painting, the symbol ceases to be a fixed reference. It shifts, overlaps, and transforms until it takes on new meaning through the relationships established within the image itself. As the journey unfolds, my way of painting also changes: figures, architecture, doors, and circles gradually give way to color, material, and light.

From Awakening to Illumination, the transformation reaches the language of painting itself. Each work is a threshold: the path offers no answer, but a space in which painting continues to pose the question.