from March 17 to April 17, 2022
Donating the turn of a baking sheet, a glowing violet moon was born on a stormy sky, filled with darkness and bewilderment. Surprise I looked at it, then, full moons, new moons, waning moons were structuring my time and the life to the workshop, filling the seasons of rounded intentions and color, generating insufficient spaces where to explain the wandering of its nature.
Making me look at the sky, the sea that replicates you, the puddles of water on rainy days, multiplying at the same time your body in misty halos. And making me think with that belief of the Angolan bushmen, convinced that all water comes from the moon and that every being has to drink lunar water, sucking the dew from the bushes and grasses at dawn and dusk, as a kind of sacred invocation to the rain.
The contradiction... or not, of working on a series of etchings on Ignominy, turning the plate that my hands held and daring to print the reverse, leaving the way to instinct, without further ado. From the first print, moons were falling from the sky, multiplying, overlapping, without any eagerness to find them, they emerged by themselves. Then in the course of time, sought in the pleasure of their company.
The prints I present belong to the series called "Un Bocado de Lunas", made with engraving, mainly etchings and developed at Taller Barbarà in Barcelona during the year 2019/2020.
Lourdes Figuera Vidal
