Vic (my hometown) Spain. My father's morning walks
In that project I worked with my father's experience of place. He devoted the last years of his life drawing walking paths and houses he encountered in his morning walks. He gave those drawings as a gift to the land and house owners who became his friends. I wanted to connect with his constructed place through one of his drawings. As a way to do that, I worked in a large-format drawing that is the reproduction of the strokes he traced, but twenty times larger. I drew one by one each of his gestures as a way of following his steps.The result is a pencil drawing of 119 x78 in. As I was moving forward, the enlarged drawing strokes became signs, then letters-Letters From My Father. That process made me relate, the act of walking, the figure of the father, the concept of authority, language, and communication.I wanted to answer the letters, and I created an alphabet in which the different signs come from the shapes and lines of the drawing-as a form of wall drawing-.
Letters From My Father. pencil drawing 300x120 cm / 118x48 in