Memory as a creative process that allows the visual recreation of the built.
This work belongs to the series ¨Cities and Memory¨, which focuses on investigating the relationship between memory and creativity. I start the works after visiting a city.

The work "Badajoz" is about the city of the same name, which I visited for the first time in 2021. This painting is the result of that first impression.
I did not know the city of Badajoz. I had passed through it several times on the way to Portugal. Now, as I entered the city for the first time, I was fascinated. The dusty image that had remained in my mind when I had seen it from afar disappeared completely. Badajoz has something magical about it.
There are cities where I have lived for a long time. There are others where I have only been for a short time. It is inevitable that when I live in them, when I pass through them, or when I return to them, my senses accumulate data. These cartographic data, data of orientation and emotion, eventually emerge as images. To recover all this information, all these impressions, is to use memory.

Memory is not a simple accumulation of data labeled and organized according to acquired or inherited patterns. I believe that memory, like every aspect of the human being, is something immensely complex and at the same time has a strong utilitarian aspect and therefore a complete beauty. It is a creative, organic and composite process that requires several simultaneous systems of thought. That is to say, to compose a memory, one must have the right dosage of these three ways of thinking or processing in order to create something tangible, useful and coherent for oneself, and therefore endowed with beauty.

My cities are the results of these creative processes that compose memory.
The "Cities and Memory" series consists of two-dimensional compositions that aspire to be spherical or aerial. They are flat compositions in which forms, models, patterns, and human and technological processes create an architectural warp.